- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:11:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Charlie Reis <creis@chromium.org>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Charlie Reis wrote: > > > > Does this need to be done from window.open()? > > Yes. For example, Gmail uses window.open() for the links in emails, but > would like the links to open in an unrelated context. Why does GMail need to use window.open()? Surely the right way to expose a link is to use <a href="">. What is forcing them to use window.open()? (Using window.open() has a number of negative side-effects, so if we could move them off that that would be a win. Furthermore, not having to support window.open() here would in general make this far easier. So if there really is a need to support window.open(), I would like to understand it.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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