- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:35:00 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Feb 13, 2008 7:00 PM, Simon Pieters wrote: > > 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). How many use Transitional because they want/have to use the target= attribute with a value other than _blank? > For these reasons, I'd suggest to make target="_blank" conforming. Is coining names that hard? e.g. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Thomas+Broyer" target="me_on_google">Search for me on Google</a> or <a href="http://bigtits.example.com" target="wordpress_12">Maybe my site can interest you</a> -- Thomas Broyer
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