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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Aug 1, 2003 7:18PM

(Sorry about late response -- catching up, and wanted to chime in
on this.)

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 07:58 AM, Tom Gilder wrote:

> 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. [...]
> 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.

Well, this is one of those gray areas -- the dreaded "until user
agent" type scenarios.

In such a case, I think it's best to err on the side of warning the
user (as Laurie suggests) instead of simply leaving it up to the
user agent -- especially as this is not standard functionality.

--Kynn

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