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Re: Title attributes on images and links

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Aug 5, 2009 1:05PM

On 05/08/2009 19:19, Simius Puer wrote:
> The W3C depreciated it

[snip]

> because you should *not*interfere with the users browser...if they
> want to open it in a new link they can!

This is a reasonable argument for making "target='_blank'"
non-conforming, although I don't entirely buy it.

But do you have a citation that shows this was the /actual/ reason why
HTML4 made "target='_blank'" non-conforming in Strict HTML, or are you
just putting forward a rationalization of the decision? I've never found
a record of the reasoning behind it.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis