- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:13:15 +0200
- To: 12421170.53491203248875435.JavaMail.root@mail.ff44a.com
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Feb 17, 2008, at 14:54, Daniel Schattenkirchner wrote: > Karl Groves wrote: > >> I know this is venturing a bit off topic, but in usability studies, >> people actually get lost after new windows are opened. In other >> words, it has the exact opposite effect than what you desire. > > I'd like to support this direction of the topic. Since I've switched > to Firefox in late 2004 I configured it to open everything in the > same window/tab. I've never missed the behaviour of links opening in > a new window since then. That's *precisely* why HTML5 should *allow* target='_blank'. When the easily detectable way of doing something that you don't want authors to do but they want to do *anyway* is conforming and supported by browsers by default, it is easier for you to take counter-measures than it would be if the authors used something less easy to detect and counter (such as window.open()). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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