- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:03:19 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- cc: Dave Carscadden <davecarscadden@hotmail.com>, www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Nick Kew wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Lloyd Wood wrote: > > > > where gotopage() is your function to open whatever window you want, > > > bearing in mind my admonition. > > > > presumes javascript is available, whereas target only really requires > > frames. > > That is one of the merits of this approach! Using Javascript for this > means that "system default" behaviour is what the author wants, but > at the same time gives the user more control than using the target > attribute. and that presumes javascript is _only_ used for spawning new pages, and nothing else, so that the user really can assert control by disabling it. target="name" passes everything into a single named new window in a frames-aware browser if a frame of that name isn't present - better than target="_new". L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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