Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/09/06 23:47

alice@fearofdolls.com wrote:
> Ed Seedhouse wrote:
>> On 9 Dec 2006 12:13:39 -0800, alice@fearofdolls.com wrote:
>>
>>> I know there is a tag from telling a link to open in a new window
>> No there isn't. There's an attribute of the <a> tag that will allow
>> this but an attribute isn't a tag. Furthermore it's a bad practice and
>> it has been depreciated in the latest versions of html and xhtml. You
>> can however still do it with javascript. But you shouldn't.
>>
>
> Why is this considered bad practice?
>
>>> but
>>> is there a way to make a link open in a new tab (for IE7 and other
>>> tabbed browsers?).
>> This is under the control of the user, who can set his browser to do
>> that. It isn't under the web page's control.
>

Read away...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=why+are+new+window+links+bad%3F&btnG=Google+Search


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