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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 11, 2002 9:35AM

Situation: WAI Priority 2 - 10.1 states: Until user agents allow users to
turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear
and do not change the current window without informing the user.

Question: Would not the <_a href="mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> "></a> code create
a pop-up window? In the major browsers it launches the associated email
client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messanger, etc.) in a seperate
"window". One could argue that this is "anticipated" behaviour and is not
an accessibility issue per-se, but I'm curious about this and would like to
poll the group.

Thoughts?

JF



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