Posted by usenet+2004 on 10/01/06 17:16

richard:

> In general, &amp is best used instead of just &.

although if a Name character follows, the entity reference must be
closed explicitly, with a semi-colon.

> "new" should be _blank.

They mean different things. With 'new', user-agents SHOULD either load
the resource in a new frame named 'new' or if a frame named 'new'
already exists, load the resource in that frame. The spec talks about
known and unknown frames here. With '_blank', they SHOULD load the
resource in a 'new, unnamed window', regardless of existing frames.
All that assumes that the user-agent understands 'target', that it
doesn't override the attribute, and that there are such things as
frames and windows.

--
Jock

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