RE: target in xhtml11

Yes and No

No - because it works as is

Yes - if you intend to validate your page against WCAG, Bobby or other
accessibility conformance standard
Then you will find the page will not validate - give it a try

As soon as I added 'onclick' to one of my pages validation was lost.

However - I do not have an answer to your 'target' issue - my onlick was for
a completely different reason

I wanted 2 different URLs for the href - one for none-Jscript and one for
Jscript enabled

I got round this by setting the value in the href to the non Jscript value
and then using an onload script which changed the href value - obviously
only having any effect when Jscript is enabled

Thus I had the same effect without onclick and WCAG / Bobby validation was
maintained.

Allan


-----Original Message-----
From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Beton, Richard
Sent: 14 June 2004 15:30
To: Allan Smith; www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: target in xhtml11


Allan Smith wrote:

>Re option 2 - javascript
>The suggested code obviously works
>
>But then creates a problem when validating with WCAG / Bobby etc  along the
>lines of
>... Find a way of doing this that does not use a mouse.. (my words)
>and adding an 'onkey' doesn't stop the validation fail
>  
>

I'm sorry Allan, I'm not sure I understand your point.  The happy 
consequence of using the href attribute with javascript is that it 
remains accessible, whether or not javascript is available/enabled.

<a href="http://www.w3.org" onclick="return wOpen(this,
'_blank')">W3.org</a>


Are you suggesting I need to add something else to improve it further?

Rick

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