- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 07:42:15 +0100
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > For example, forms sporting those "By submitting this form you accept > our __terms of service__ and __privacy policy__" links I mentioned > earlier are quite often sent over HTTPS. These are not cached by > mainstream browsers, because the browser vendors have caved to bank > Webmasters who threatened to block them if they were too HTTP-compliant. > So if such a browser was configured to open those links in the same > window, it would necessarily forget everything you'd entered in the > form, which would be annoying. I suppose a logical behavior might therefore be for such UAs to open /all/ new links out of a HTTPS form in a new window, target attribute or no target attribute. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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