Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/16/05 22:13

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Mitja Trampus wrote:

> Andy Dingley wrote:
> > > examples may suggest.
> >
> > They're needed if you want to trigger the "new window" behaviour.
> > They're also forbidden by the standards, unless they're one of a small
> > named list, such as "_blank"
>
> Check again with w3c...

We already did, unlike you.

> "If any target attribute refers to an unknown frame F, the user agent should
> create a new window and frame, assign the name F to the frame, and load the
> resource designated by the element in the new frame."

Read http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-frame-target
and weep. Or at least apologise to Andy.

Except for the reserved names listed below, frame target names
(%FrameTarget; in the DTD) must begin with an alphabetic character
^^^^
(a-zA-Z). User agents should ignore all other target names.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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