On 8 Jun 2009 Harriet Bazley wrote:
> I recently fell foul of a link which used the HTML code href="/local/page" target="_new_window"> and totally failed to open in a
> new window as advertised in the body text of the parent page - is this
> valid HTML? The only reference material I've got sugg
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 09:50 +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
>
> The attribute target="_new" works with most browsers (and is valid
> html)
No it isn't, but as we've said time and again, that's irrelevant from a
browser manufacturer's perspective.
> but for idealogical reasons,
I have no idea wha
On 8 Jun 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote:
>> but for idealogical reasons,
> I have no idea what you mean by this.
I mean that you have decided not to implement target="_new" because
you believe that it isn't valid html and therefore shouldn't be
supported. The pragmatic view would be to implement it
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:46 +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote:
>
> >> but for idealogical reasons,
>
> > I have no idea what you mean by this.
>
> I mean that you have decided not to implement target="_new" because
> you believe that it isn't valid html and there
On 8 Jun 2009 John-Mark Bell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:46 +0100, Richard Porter wrote:
>> I mean that you have decided not to implement target="_new" because
>> you believe that it isn't valid html and therefore shouldn't be
>> supported.
> Er, no. There was a bug. It is now fixed.
Aha,
In article <5164a46650@nails.ukonline.co.uk>,
Jim Nagel wrote:
> Netsurf r7615 formats this page a thousand miles wide and a hundred
> miles deep, most of it blank space; the payload is way way down:
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180355526675
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