[thelist] How do you validate an A link with a "target"?

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Thu Apr 18 09:15:01 CDT 2002


> if your audience consists mainly of web professionals or other
> computer literate folk this isn't an issue of course (those folk will
> know how to open a link in a new window by themselves, though -
> so why force it?). but if you design for the mass market be careful
> with new windows.

beautifully stated, nik

people who know about second windows should retain the option to open it in
the same window or not (which is why <a href="javascript:popup()"> is
egregiously bad, and why many sites now have a little checkbox that applies
to all links on the page)

people who don't, shouldn't have second windows thrust upon them

rudy




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