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 More options Sep 1 2012, 8:39 pm
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
From: dorayme <dora...@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:39:27 +1000
Local: Sat, Sep 1 2012 8:39 pm
Subject: Re: mini-tutorial needed: 'target=""' attribute for 'A'
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In article <50428f08$0$1378$c3e8da3$69010...@news.astraweb.com>,
 Warren Oates <warren.oa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <dorayme-3294ED.08164302092...@news.albasani.net>,
>  dorayme <dora...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> > In article <1gvfvb0tom0wx.w54jj69q61gb....@40tude.net>,
> >  tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlL...@att.net> wrote:

> > > What I knew, from back in the days of tab-less browsers: an anchor "tag"
> > > of
> > > form <A href="WhatHaveYou" target="_blank"> used to open a fresh browser
> > > window to display whatever the URI "WhatHaveYou" had on offer.

> > > In these days of tabbed browsers, though, there must be two attribute
> > > value
> > > candidates, one for spawning a new *window*, one for opening a new *tab*,
> > > and I'll  be sempiternally grateful to whoever teaches me what they are.

> > Whether a link with this attribute opens in a new window or a tab is
> > under the user's control. Firefox (Mac), for example, even has a
> > preference (option) that is called "Open new windows in a new tab
> > instead", not or un ticking this will cause such links to open in a
> > fresh window.

> > There's no other attribute that will force the alternative so it could
> > not be the case that there must be one. This is on the principle that
> > if x is necessary then x is the case and cannot not be the case. Or
> > something like that, it is first thing on Sunday morning, I will look
> > into this deep principle later.

> Exactly. But it's not Sunday here yet. All my browsers are set to open
> "target" in new tabs. If you want a new window, you'll need to do it in
> Javascript (essentially a pop-up).

Yes, and that too faces hurdles from browser settings and add-ons.

From the user's point of view, btw, just talking straight html links
with or without attributes, at least on Macs, you can force a new
window on a tactical basis by Option Command click. There are all
manner of ways of going. Even without the target attribute, you can
force a link to open in a fresh tab with Command click.

That old target=_new was an interesting idea. It reserved a window (or
a tab) and opens other "new"ly attributed links to that same window or
tab. Try it.

Mostly, I reckon, authors have work enough to do without worrying
about how everyone should view their links. If they don't know how to
browse and use their reasonably basic facilities, that's on them.

--
dorayme


 
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