- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:12:43 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 12/14/11 7:12 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > One could actually argue that the pages that exist that use _main and > > _content actually work _better_ in current UAs with those values being > > interpreted as browsing context names than they would if they were > > treated as synonyms for _self or _top, because it would let a user > > open the page up in a window and have the links open in a window next > > to it, reproducing the old behaviour with secondary browsing contexts. > > The pages on the _web_ that use them are not using them to do secondary > context stuff. The page I linked to that uses _main in fact does worse > in UAs that don't do anything special for _main. The page you linked to seemed to me to be a page clearly intended to live in a sidebar so that the user could open a bunch of links up in the main area. Without a sidebar, to replicate the experience you'd need two browser windows side by side with the links opening from one to the other. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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