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Re: opening new browser windows?

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Nov 6, 2003 1:05PM

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Mark Bryant wrote:

> What is the proper way to handle a link that when clicked, opens a new
> browser window (target=_blank)?

To refrain from using them.

> I have read in the WAI about Checkpoint 10.1 "Until user agents allow users
> to turn off spawned windows, do not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear
> and do not change the current window without informing the user. [Priority
> 2]".

It is ambiguous, isn't it?

> Seems like this only applies to server spawned windows and not user
> initiated clicking?

The target="_blank" attribute means opening a new window (without
explicitly informing the user). Either omit it, or at least inform the
user (causing some distraction).

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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