Howdy!

I didn't say "broken"; I said "b0rked". It is unfortunate that browser-level control of this behavior is not widespread or standard.

The choice of a browser involves tradeoffs. You cannot infer acceptance of the consequences of abusive web coding from the choice of browsers. At the very least, you don't get to tell me it's all my fault and that I shouldn't complain.

Now, I have been known to make my displeasure known to other web sites at their use of target=_blank on links. This case was the first time I recall running into that usage on PM, and it was not a site function, but a user created link.

I have yet to see a cogent argument why the target attribute is useful on PM. I have seen discussion of how it can be useful in a framed page, but that is not relevant here, nor to those discussions speak to setting it to _blank. I really dislike web sites that think they should control my browser by opening windows when I click links. It's popups all over again. I do have my browser configured to give me a visual cue that a link will try to open a new window, but that does not excuse the abuse of that feature.

My request was confined to its use here 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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