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From: Tom Gilder
Date: Jul 11, 2003 9:01AM

On Friday, July 11, 2003, 3:12:25 PM, Laurie Davis-Covin wrote:
> For one thing, pop-up windows. Other than stating that a link will
> open a new window, is there anything else I can do to move us closer
> to compliance?

That is not something you should do.

You cannot say for certain that a browser will pay any attention to
your request to open a new window (it might be set to open all pages
in the current one).

And if the browser is already set to announce that a link will open in
a new window, then a user will get two warnings. It is something best
left to user agents.

--
Tom Gilder, http://tom.me.uk/
Blog! http://blog.tom.me.uk/



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