Howdy!

Pray, enlighten me then.

I use FireFox these days. What magic incantation do I perform to make it ignore target?

Frankly, most sites that I deal with *don't* use that "feature". In addition, I *do* often open links in new tabs. I'd be mostly mollified if I could tell Firefox that "target=_blank" should open a new tab.

...and, now that I've done a bit of research, I find that there *is* and extension for Firefox that probably will do what I want, and also that the Firefox team has considered the whole mess of just *how* target should work with tabs and all that. If I read it correctly, Firefox 1.5 may have improved control over this matter.

Now, I'm not withdrawing my request to deprecate the use of the target attribute. I didn't say "ban it outright". I started with something less drastic. I'd like to see reasoned discussion of the benefits of "target" in the context of links on PM.

yours,
Michael

In reply to Re^4: Deprecate target attribute in <a> tag by herveus
in thread Deprecate target attribute in <a> tag by herveus

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