[wp-hackers] Use of _blank in wp-admin

[Viper007Bond]

It was never an intended functionality in the first place really and it
still works under XHTML, it just breaks validation.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Tim Kissane <tim at timbury.net> wrote:

> I use many browsers to test page design, but Firefox and Opera are my
> main personal use choices. I have set the preferences in each to open
> tabs rather than windows (the default on Opera), so this is not an
> annoyance at all.
>
> Why has the target parameter has been dropped? I sometimes want to
> force a visitor to a page to open a link in a new window/tab, rather than
> replace the page containing the link. It is ridiculous for the authors of
> the xhtml standards to remove this functionality.
>
> Ah, but I digress... ;-)
>
> WP rawks!
>
> Tim K.
>
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>
> Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One would think that with all the recent standards-based discussion and
> all, WP wouldn't be using target="" attributes on links; but I was surprised
> to find that certain links in the admin center use _blank.
> >
> > This is annoying on more than one level - seeing as all browsers support
> tabs, _blank will open the link in a new Window (except in Opera, which
> fortunately intercepts _blank calls and converts them to new tabs) which is
> pretty annoying behavior for us tab-lovers.
> >
> > More importantly, to the best of my knowledge _blank has been phased out
> of the HTML standards...
> >
> > Any idea why we're using them?
> >
> > -MQ
> >
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