- From: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:59:05 -0600
- To: "Thomas Broyer" <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Thomas, > How many use Transitional because they want/have to use the target= > attribute with a value other than _blank? Excellent question. Perhaps that's the other 50% of the votes? At least one person mentions _top in there. I also think the poll should include more than 10 total votes :) As for naming a view - that would be hard given the existing footprint of using _blank everywhere. I'm not sure why _blank was not made conforming, can anyone give the history? Regards, Jeff On 2/13/08, Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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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