- From: Rowland Shaw <Rowland.Shaw@seagatesoftware.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:32:10 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
> Dave J Woolley wrote: > > Tapio Markula wrote: > > > > > > I agree. The attribute 'target' is reasonable also, when opening a > > > temporary window but keeping the main window background. > > > > > [DJW:] Popups are often misused. Very few [snip] > > Just because something can be missused dosn't mean that it shouldn't be in > the standards. If people get annoyed by ad-popups then sites will not use > them. Serious advertisers check what people think of thier ads... Popups are, in most cases, mis-used. In fact yesterday was the first time I actually had a legitimate excuse, and that was in a CV, where the popups loaded websites relating to some past work It's a shame that to have this functionality will loose the strict 4.01 compliance (I'd rather not use transitional) but at the same time, it's not really a frameset document either, it merely wants to start related content in a method that it's easy to return to the original page -- as we've already discussed, it's remarkably easy to break the back button functionality... It's that lame justification that I can see a use for target to move into the strict DTD, even if it's only with the standard frame names (_top _parent _blank etc) Well, that's my tuppence worth...
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