[thelist] Target="_blank" error

Sun Jan 18 07:26:41 CST 2009

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Edwin Martin <edwin at bitstorm.org> wrote:

> 2009/1/16 Stacie Pearson <stacie at saracenodesign.com>:
> What I haven't seen in this thread is that you don't have to use the
> transitional DTD.
>
> In XHTML, all HTML-elements that cope with windows, like frames and
> the target-attribute, are split off in the Frameset-DTD.
>
> So use this Doctype if you want a strict DTD and be able to use the
> target-attribute:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html
> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
>
> Here's the spec:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative
>
> Edwin Martin
>

Simply put, I hate frames, and therefore I don't pay attention to them.
Personally, sing a strict-frameset doctype is like saying "I want to pretend
to be a pro, but still be able to keep my handicap when I play."

That's strictly personal, though.

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