- From: j.j. <moz@jeka.info>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:57:35 +0100
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML Issue Tracking WG <public-html@w3.org>
Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> hodd gsachd: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:50:52 +0100, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > >>> 0006 / 400 Bad value “_new” for attribute “target” on element “a” >>> from namespace “http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”: Bad browsing >>> context name: Browsing context name started with the underscore >>> and used a reserved keyword “new”. >> >> Perhaps these should be conforming. > > _top already is, but _new and _blank aren't. I think _new and _blank > should be conforming in order to avoid javascript hacks that are harder > to discover and disable for users who don't want new windows... Just a note: HTML4 Transitional allows _blank, _parent, _self, _top but not _new. Browsers handle target="_new" same as target="xyz". Authors might erroneous use "_new" if they want the functionality of "_blank". Therefore having "_new" non-conforming and "_blank" conforming is hepful. j.j.
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