Re: output of cgi to a new window

At 1:22 AM -0500 1997-07-09, David Basiji wrote:
>I have a cgi script which sends its output to a new browser window.
>(see http://weber.u.washington.edu/~basiji/Ballistics/wbc.html)
>I'm using a hack on the input form that works with most browsers:
><FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="wbc.cgi" TARGET="output">
>The TARGET tag is nonstandard but does work except with AOL browsers.
>Is there a more standard way to implement this feature so it won't mess
>up the browsers?

I think it's fairly irrelevant, since the AOL browser meets few of the
standards anyway, AFAIK.  The TARGET attribute was introduced in Netscape,
I think, and is more involved with JavaScript, etc, which the AOL browser
doesn't support.

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Received on Sunday, 7 September 1997 03:24:10 UTC