[thelist] target="_new" and xhtml 1.0

Aylard JA (James) jaylard at equilon.com
Wed Aug 2 19:01:28 CDT 2000


Erike Meyer wrote:
> <Dane Weber quote>
> You'll need to use Javascript. There is absolutely no structural meaning
to
> 'target' except that you really don't want anyone following that link away
> from your site. All windows are a user-agent issue.
> </quote>

	Interesting explanation, although a bit narrow since target is
probably used more often to specify a particular frame within a frames-based
document than to pop a new window to prevent straying. But then, target is
part of the frameset dtd, as well. Looks like the W3C covered its bases!

James Aylard
jaylard at equilon.com




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