- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:47:35 -0700
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 07:32:34PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> > Please don't encourage yet more sites to open new tabs when I didn't ask >> > for it. >> It's merely a new browsing context IIUC, not necessarily a new window >> (frame, tab, tile or whatever it's called this year). Someone that >> understands the codebase of a modern browser could even make the back >> button work, although he would have to restrict write access to the history >> stack or tree as well, for security reasons. > > He's saying he wants it to force target=_blank, though. That doesn't seem necessary. Why not navigate the current window to a new document in an unrelated browsing context? Adam
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