- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:34:02 +1000
Hi, This is regarding the valid browsing context names, used for the target attribute [1]. Why is _blank still considered a conforming value? On IRC, Hixie mentioned that there are some legitimate use cases, but didn't list any. I've argued against popups many times before and heard many arguments for them, but I'm yet to hear of any legitimate use cases. If there are any, what are they? _new is also not specced, yet it is widely used and treated as a magic value like _blank in Firefox. Maybe it should be specced the same as _blank. However, IE, Opera and Safari didn't appear to treat it as such, so maybe it's not needed. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#valid8 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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