- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:15:52 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> But to open a link in a new browser window, you must add the ** "target=new" attribute in the <a href> tag. It doesn't need to be ** specifically the word "new" - it can be "target=blank" or what have you. There is a specific target, which might be _new (with a leading underscore) that always opens in a new window. Otherwise the browser will try to open in an existing window of the same name - windows are treated like detached frames, and suffer the same inability to encode the complete screen state in a URL that framesets have. The only special target I half remember is _top, which should *always* be used when linking off site, as it replaces the whole nested set of nested framesets with the contents from the new link. (This does assume that your lawyers/marketing people haven't insisted that you start a new window in this case.)
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