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Re: Reason For Links Opening In New Window

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From: Susan R. Grossman
Date: Jan 5, 2007 8:50AM

target="blank" is no longer supported in the xhtml spec, but there are
reasons to occasionally use accessible pop-up windows. Besides the reasons
already stated, for many government sites (and some large corporate), it's
policy to force links that go to an outside web page (not in the current
domain) to open in a pop-up window with a message about "leaving the site"
and "no responsibility for content" with a link to click on to continue
knowingly to the outside site.

Susan

On 1/5/07, Sandra Clark < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Just an FYI, in xHTML 1.x the target attribute in a link is deprecated.
> I've had some success with a Javascript solution that I reference
> http://www.shayna.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.display_entry&;id=153. It
> also degrades gracefully when Javascript is disabled.
>
> I stay away from popups, but I've found that when building applications
> (not
> web sites) that having popups or new windows for items such as pick lists
> sometimes is much preferable than opening the links in the same window.
>
>
> Sandra Clark
> =============================> http://www.shayna.com
> Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility
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