Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/22/05 23:39

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Woodmon wrote:

> So is target="_new" or target="_blank" completely deprecated?

In a web context, "deprecated" is a technical term. You find the
answer to questions about it by looking it up at the W3C, not by
asking usenet's opinion. For example for HTML/4.01:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/attributes.html

Though some find it odd that although it's missing from Strict, it's
not actually deprecated.

> Any replacement code that works well in both IE an Firefox?

Taking it out is the generally user-friendly thing to do. Browser
control should be in the hands of the user.

> My friend who I am helping out with this site desires to launch a new
> window (or preferably a tab) in his browser

Then teach him how to use his browser's feature for doing that (e.g
right-click, "open link in new tab", seems intuitive enough, if they
can't remember CTRL/click). Leave other readers free to make their
own choices.

have fun

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