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Re: Popup windows and JAWS

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From: Steven Henderson
Date: Oct 28, 2009 4:45AM

I have to say that I agree that how a window opens should be the user's
choice. The web browser is a single application instance that a user has
chosen to open. They expect 'it' to open as a new window because it is a
windowed application, but to then treat links within that browser instance
as additional application windows is just plain wrong (for the same reasons
Simius points out). Imagine if every action you wanted to carry out in your
daily applications such as bolding text in Word or using a tool in Photoshop
prompted a new window ... ouch, that'd be a real b*****d!

I think the target attribute belongs in history like mailto links (shudder).