Posted by Mitja Trampus on 11/17/05 01:37

Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> 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.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I don't see a reason for weeping here. True, I made a
mistake by thinking _foo tagets are allowed. But only by
thinking so - the "check again with w3c" was referring to
"they [the _foo targets] are needed if you want to trigger
the new window behavior". The thread was namely about what
to specify as target to open a new window.
Not exactly a case of perfect quoting on my part, I'm afraid.

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