Re: [Referrer] Adding a referrer attribute delivery mechanism

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Martin Thomson
> <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems like the right thing to do would be to remove rel=noreferrer
>> eventually, so being able to ignore it is easier than describing a
>> combination rule, or any rule where it takes precedence.  Both make it
>> harder to have it disappear.
>
> No, rel=noreferrer disables window.opener. We don't want to lose that.

In combination with `target="_blank"`, it also moves the target into a
fresh new process (in Chrome).

It wouldn't be a bad thing to explain this magic in some way that
doesn't require developers to dig through user agent's source to
figure that out, however.

-mike

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