Re: error in Tech example of target att

Nir,
Sorry, for my misunderstanding of your comment.  I thought you were asking
the UA group to tell browsers not to support "_new".  Thanks for the
clarification.
Jon


At 09:12 PM 2/29/00 -0500, Nir Dagan wrote:
>I do not see how what you say is related to my message.
>
>As far as I understand the example explained how to support 
>wrong markup i.e. target="_new". The explanation is in contradiction to 
>the HTML recommendation that refers explicitly to this markup error 
>with "user agents should ignore" this "target name". So one possibility
>is to that the guidelines should note that the new recommendation 
>from W3C is in contradiction to HTML4.01. Also I would like to know why 
>changing HTML4.01 is needed. 
>
>I think that this was not the intention of the guideline.
>The intention was to show a possible way to support correct 
>markup, such as target="foo" or target="_blank". So I suggested 
>to change the example to have correct markup, as I think was intended.
> 
>Regards,
>Nir.
>
>At 04:19 PM 2/29/00 -0600, Jon Gunderson wrote:
>>Nir,
>>Thanks for comments.
>>In general the guidelines do not tell developers not to do something.  What
>>we do say is that they should conform to open standards that are accessible
>>like the ones available from the W3C and then in the Web Content Guidelines
>>for authors to use correct markup.  If a user agent wants to extend the
>>functionality through some proprietary markup, we don't say not to do it.
>>This could lead to a long list of items that would be beyond the capability
>>of the working group to manage.
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>
>>At 03:50 PM 2/29/00 -0500, Nir Dagan wrote:
>>>In http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000128/
>>>article 4.16: 
>>>there is an (implicit HTML) markup example of <a target="_new"> 
>>>
>>>To make a long story short, replacing "_new" 
>>>with "_blank" in the example, would be a good change.
>>>
>>>To keep a long story long:
>>>In HTML the value of target must begin with a letter [a-zA-Z]
>>>unless it is a reserved name starting with an underscore. "_new" 
>>>is not one of these reserved names.
>>>See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-frame-target
>>>where it says:
>>>"6.16 Frame target names
>>>Except for the reserved names listed below, frame target names 
>>>(%FrameTarget; in the DTD) must begin with an alphabetic 
>>>character (a-zA-Z). User agents should ignore all other 
>>>target names."
>
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Received on Wednesday, 1 March 2000 09:20:23 UTC