- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:23:21 -0500
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
Bert Bos wrote: > It is clear that we need to control what happens on link > traversal: replace the current document, expand in place, pop-up a > temporary window, open a tab in the background... To me, it is clear that page authors should not be able to control whether a page comes up in a window or a tab. For historical reasons, I have no choice but to cede page authors some control over whether on a link click the new page replaces the old one or is opened in a new viewing area, and this distinction makes some sense. But specifying what sort of new viewing area the page wants is not acceptable to me as a user and is fragile from a general perspective (what happens when someone devises a new method of creating a new viewing area? Are we going to change the spec some more?). I suspect and hope that this sentence was just an example of what is being considered and not necessarily representative of the actual direction the specification would take.... -Boris
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