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

[Viper007Bond]

Actually, it's just that browsers are relatively very forgiving and ignore
the fact that you are missing the slash in <br>. If you had a standards
strict browser or something that was trying to parse the XHTML and couldn't
account for coding mistakes, it would fail.

But we're getting off-topic. :)

Oh, and for the record, the admin area as it is right now does validate as
XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but just about anything decent will validate as
Transitional, so that's not saying too much.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Knut-Olav Hoven <hovenko at linpro.no> wrote:

> On Saturday 22 March 2008 12:33:49 Viper007Bond wrote:
> > No, it validates just fine, if you use it right, i.e. <br />
> >
> > In XHTML, all non-closing tag elements (br, img, link, meta, etc.) need
> to
> > have a slash before the closing bracket.
> >
> > <img src="http://site.com/image.jpg" alt="My Image" />
>
> Most browsers interpret both these ways of writing the tag the same way,
> but
> <br> does not validate, <br /> does. It's a big different.
>
> Following the XHTML standard is pretty black and white, either it
> validates or
> it does not.
>
> If it does not validate, it's not XHTML anymore, it's something inbetween
> HTML4 and XHTML and it's up to the browser to decide what to do with it.
>
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Knut-Olav Hoven <hovenko at linpro.no>
> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 22 March 2008 11:45:42 Viper007Bond wrote:
> > > > It was never an intended functionality in the first place really and
> it
> > > > still works under XHTML, it just breaks validation.
> > >
> > > The <br> tag also works under XHTML, but it does not validate as
> XHTML,
> > > which
> > > means it is not XHTML, which means you should probably use the HTML 4
> > > doctype
> > > instead.
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Tim Kissane
> > > > > Timbury Computer Services
> > > > > http://timkissane.com/
> > > > > http://timbury.net/
> > > > > 732.604.3817
> > > > > =========================
> > > > > "More hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience
> > > > > than
> > >
> > > in
> > >
> > > > > the name of rebellion." -- CP Snow
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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