- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:12:34 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Honza Bambas wrote: > > Target '_search' makes a link open in a sidebar (Opera) or sidebar-like > window (IE). For some offline web apps would be cool to open sidebar by > just one click. In other browsers (Firefox) web content could be open in > a sidebar only by creating a bookmark, marking it as to open in a > sidebar, use (click) that bookmark. > > So, there are tendencies and voices to open web content in a sidebar in > all browsers but it is not taken as a standard. I would really like this > feature to be available in all browsers. HTML5 supports this use case using rel=sidebar. On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Gavin Sharp wrote: > > Firefox used to have this behavior, but it was accidentally broken prior > to 3.0 (opened a new tab instead). We then removed it in 3.0.2 because > only one person had noticed the change in behavior, and it didn't seem > worth the code complexity or maintenance cost. > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438526 has more details. > Comment 7 in that bug implies that IE 7 only supports if you enable a > non-default preference option. I haven't added target=_search since it does not seem browser vendors want to implement it. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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