Re: Validator bug for HTML 4.01 Strict DTD?

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Nick Kew wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Davydd Cook wrote:
>
> > Wondering about this and how anybody would manage to write a framed site
> > using the strict HTML 4.01 DTD, I popped over to
>
> You wouldn't.  You would use another DTD.
>
> If you want to open another window, you would use a scripting event,
> thereby empowering users who don't want another window to turn it
> off even if they have a primitive browser that fails to warn them
> about new windows.

I don't see how globally disabling/enabling javascript to avoid such
events empowers the user. After all, that's all most browser UIs seem
to allow.

L.

if this mail is a resend, sorry.

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Received on Thursday, 21 February 2002 15:58:12 UTC