- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:48:42 -0400
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 9/24/12 8:42 PM, Mihai Parparita wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > >> 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()? >> > > I can't speak for Gmail, but Google Reader uses window.open since it allows > "unrelated" links to be opened in response to a key event (the "v" keyboard > shortcut). In most UAs this is also possible to do with a click() on the HTML <a>, no? In the ones in which it's _not_ possible that way, they should add it, perhaps? -Boris
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