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From: Kallie Swanepoel
Date: Jan 5, 2007 12:30PM

Thanks


Kallie Swanepoel
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-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Gareth Dart
Sent: 05 January 2007 20:07
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Reason For Links Opening In New Window


target = "_blank" is a special value of the target attribute which tells
the browser to open the link in a new window.

target = "blank" is a normal value of the target attribute which tells
the browser to open the link in a frame named 'blank' - just not a good
idea on _so_ many levels.

G

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]On Behalf Of Kallie
Swanepoel
Sent: Friday 5 January 2007 18:02
To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Reason For Links Opening In New Window


What is the difference between the two?

Kallie Swanepoel
Piano Tuner/Klavierstemmer
Skype Name: KallieSwanepoel
Phone: +27 (0) 12 379 3762
Mobile: +27 (0) 83 261 6942
Voice Link: +27 (0) 88 129 8775
Fax: +27 (0) 86 633 2999
http://www.kallieswanepoel.co.za


-----Original Message-----
From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jukka K.
Korpela
Sent: 05 January 2007 18:32
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Reason For Links Opening In New Window


On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Susan R. Grossman wrote:

> target="blank" is no longer supported in the xhtml spec,

It is. Please refrain from spreading false rumors and check the actual
specifications before citing them. The target attribute is in the XHTML
1.0 specification just as in HTML 4.01. By the way, there is a
difference
between target="blank" and target="_blank".

> but there are
> reasons to occasionally use accessible pop-up windows.

There's really no such thing as an accessible pop-up window on the WWW.
There might be in a limited environment where users are aware of pop-up
features and quite capable of controlling them.

> Besides the reasons already stated,

No acceptable reasons were 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"

That's a mistake on several accounts, including accessibility. It's
quite
illogical to present it as an argument in favor of something that is
implied in this wrong idea itself.

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