On 4 Mar 2004, at 15:38, David Poehlman wrote: > This implies that old is bad and though > that may be a way to think, it is not necessarily true. It shouldn't imply that. All that should be implied is that software which fails to provide a warning is (in that respect) inferior to software which does. > The benefit you achieve is that it does not actual harm to let people > know. It might not cause harm from a point of view which strictly considers accessibility, however it does: * Increase work required from the developer * Increase (very slightly) bandwidth and data storage requirements * Provide false information to some users * Provide duplicate information to some users I would consider all of the above 'harm', although perhaps not to accessibility. As Phil Jenkins said - the information that a new window will open is already available to the user agent. It has been that way since it was possible for an author to prompt the browser to open a new window, and user agents which take advantage of this information already exist. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/Received on Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:53:44 GMT
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