Re: Why authors are using Transitional (and target="_blank")

On 19/02/2008, Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com> wrote:
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> > or any other globally unique ID (e.g.
> > target="gmail_<internal_mail_id>" where <internal_mail_id> is the ID
> > used in Gmail database to identify the mail message).
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> Except that a mail may link to multiple websites, and you'd probably
> want them each opening in separate tabs, not overwriting each other.
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> The advantage of a named window (target="help" or whatever) is that it
> can be re-used (such as for updating the help content for the current
> page, rather than spawning yet another window).  If you just want to
> open a new window and have no desire ever to use it for anything else
> then target="_blank" seems the best way of expressing that.
>
>
Exactly.

Sam