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Re: Reason For Links Opening In New Window

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From: Phil Teare
Date: Jan 8, 2007 1:10AM

Hi all

There are many "Web2.0" type reasons for such techniques. Opening a
new window can often give you Javascript fucntionality that woud
otherwise be out of reach.

Such as Jacuba's spellchecking.

I give Jacuba as an example, as it offers AT to many for free, so
bashing it for useing javascript in this way is not an immediate
conclusion to be reached.

For example you can use a spawned window to keep some javascript
alive, when a user goes to another page, even if it is not loaded by
the next page. It can be inserted by the spawned page, if created by
one on the same domain.

This affords greater freedom scope and functionality to bookmarklets
developers, and JS service providers. Some of whom are on the side of
accessibility...

Thoughts/reactions to this?

Phil Teare
Technical Director
Textic ltd
www.talklets.com