- From: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:56:16 +0000
- To: "j.j." <moz@jeka.info>
- CC: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 04/02/08 20:57, j.j. wrote: > HTML4 Transitional allows _blank, _parent, _self, _top but not _new. > > Browsers handle target="_new" same as target="xyz". Firefox handles target="_new" specially like target="_blank". IE6 / Opera 9.2 / WebKit seem to not handle it specially. Firefox handles _content and (case-sensitively) _main, though I'm not sure exactly what it does with them. IE6 also handles _main, though I'm also not sure what that does. And it handles _media and _search, targeting the media and search sidebars respectively. WebKit handles _current the same as _self. > Authors might erroneous use "_new" if they want the functionality of > "_blank". Therefore having "_new" non-conforming and "_blank" conforming > is hepful. _new seems to be used quite commonly - I see the following <a target> values on the given number of pages, out of 15K from dmoz.org: 5057 _blank 1636 _top 653 _self 429 new 269 _new 234 _parent 152 126 blank 78 NEW 29 _BLANK 25 main 24 _pollresults 19 Mailer 18 top 15 popup 11 _NEW 11 _phpbb 11 fs_body 10 _Blank 10 _TOP -- Philip Taylor pjt47@cam.ac.uk
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