- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:00:18 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
I made a straw poll about why people are using Transitional: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3722104 Judging from that poll, common reasons are: * Desire to use target="_blank". * Other people's software emit stuff that only validates as Transitional (target="_blank" in particular). Researching into what popular CMSs, blogs, and forum software use in their output might be useful. I would expect that not being able to use target="_blank" is going to be a showstopper for many authors moving to HTML5. Authors are not going to stop making links open in new windows. Either they continue to use HTML4 Transitional, or they stop to care about conformance, or they use scripts to insert the target attribute or use window.open(). Using a script that window.open()s links sacrifises discoverability for users that the link is going to open in a new window. Referer headers aren't sent with window.open(). Users might want target=_blank and window.open() do different things since the former is mostly used for external links and the latter is used for help popups and the like. For these reasons, I'd suggest to make target="_blank" conforming. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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