- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:38:30 +0200
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, hallvord@opera.com, public-html@w3.org
Philip Taylor 2008-09-18 22.51: > The totally-independent-new-window use case (presumably for > security/privacy when you want to open untrusted links in a new window > without letting them detect where the user came from?) is handled in the > spec by <a href="..." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">. Did you include 'tab' when you said 'window'? Or is there benefit in opening an untrusted link in a new window versus in a new tab? In short: Where is the tab in the "browsing context" concept? How is it (not) related? It seems to me that technical interaction between two pages is the only valid use case for when an UA - on behalf of the author - can open a link in a new window. Hence I see no reason why a <a href=URL target=_blank rel=noreferrer>link</a> should open in a new window instead of a new tab, except for pure user preference reasons. But one should not need to set the noreferrer in order to say that a link should open in a new tab. Therefore, target=_tab could be useful in those cases when one definetely want to avoid that the users reuses the current browsing context, e.g. because one wants the user to have two documents open simultaneously. -- leif halvard silli
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