- From: Borek Bernard <borekbe@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:37:09 +0000 (GMT)
Hi Ian, What do you think about the GReader use case? In my eyes, it makes the _tab scenario quite valid. But, as mentioned by Adrian Sutton, there would be technical problems with older browsers so this proposal has to be scrapped. On the HTML/CSS level, this will be eventually handled by the 'target-new' property (which will be more flexible than target="_tab" as well) and I hope it will find its way into JavaScript too, eventually. P.S. Sorry for not maintaining the thread sequence correctly, I couldn't figure out how to do that (that's why I used the forum instead of the mailing list in the first place :) --- Borek ----- Original Message ---- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> To: Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com>; Jens Meiert <jens at meiert.com>; Jo?o Eiras <joao.eiras at gmail.com>; Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au>; Borek Bernard <borekbe at yahoo.co.uk>; Adrian Sutton <adrian.sutton at ephox.com> Cc: WHATWG <whatwg at whatwg.org> Sent: Wednesday, 11 June, 2008 12:16:50 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: target="_tab" On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Simon Pieters wrote: > > In http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=185 it is proposed that > authors should have the ability to suggest that links open in new > windows and new tabs. The suggested solution is to introduce a new > browsing context keyword "_tab". > > Use case for opening a new window with specified size: help popup. > > Use case for opening a new window without specified size: print page. > > Use case for opening a new tab: links in GReader for later reading. > > Demand for this feature: http://www.google.com/search?q=_tab In general, it's best to let users decide where the link should open. In cases where the author really wants to open a new top-level browsing context, _blank already provides that option. Help popups are probably better done using inline floating iframes inside <aside>. Browsers having tabs, windows, or any number of other UI constructs should not be an issue that Web authors need to deal with. Thus, I don't think _tab makes much sense. [snip a number of arguments much like the above] -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
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