target="_new" is not valid HTML

• From: Ray Waldin <rwaldin@pacbell.net>
• Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:33:05 -0800
• To: www-xml-linking-comments@w3.org
• Message-ID: <385F2D31.BC4E2A1A@pacbell.net>

3.6 Behavior Attributes (show and actuate) reads:

> ... 
> this is similar to the effect achieved by the following HTML fragment:
> 
> <A HREF="http://www.w3.org" target="_new">...</A>

HTML 4.0 reserves the target name "_blank" for this purpose, not "_new" (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-frame-target).  

-Ray

Received on Tuesday, 21 December 1999 02:30:16 UTC