- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:43:29 -0000
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Edward Barrow [SMTP:edward@plato32.demon.co.uk] > > Could someone explain to me why the target attribute is absent from the > xhtml 1.0 strict dtd, but not deprecated in the transitional dtd? I can > > This was extensively discuessed on the list one or two months ago. It was removed because frames were removed in HTML 4.0 strict, and it was presumed that target was meaningless without frames (forcing new windows is a controversial subject, although there might be more sympathy for the special case of target="_top" (to undo damage done by a prior use of frames). The removal of frames, and the way it was done by changing the DTD without changing the narrative, is also controversial and why there was so much discussion on the topic.
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