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Re: Section 508 / WAI Sidebar

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From: Tim Luoma
Date: Aug 6, 2002 8:02AM

Sam Buchanan wrote:
> Tim Luoma wrote:
>
>> http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/section508/
>
>
> Thanks, Tim, for your work on this. Looking at the Mozilla sidebar, one
> comment: please do not pop open new windows on every link (<base
> target="_blank" />). The sidebars I use always set <base
> target="_content" />, which opens the page in current window.

Hrm.... I didn't even know about the _content as an option... it's not
listed at

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-frame-target

I wonder from whence it came?

That said, both Mozilla and Opera support it, and it validates, so I
changed it, and will change the other sidebars I have that use _blank too!

Thanks for the tip!

TjL




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