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Thread ID: 87785	2008-03-04 03:37:00	Links in XHTML vs HTML question	Tony (4941)	Press F1

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646170	2008-03-06 22:01:00	OK, slightly OT, but still to do with xhtml and standards: If I were to stick with using "target=whatever", under what circumstances is that going to: Get me into trouble Give the user a less than optimal browsing experience (how's that for marketing speak?) generally stuff things up? I guess that question also applies to any other non-strict xhtml I were to use. For instance I use Adobe GoLive, and that inserts its own tags into the html in various places, which cause the page to fail validation.	Tony (4941)
646171	2008-03-06 23:41:00	I realise that -- however, putting the Javascript in an onclick event reduces the amount of Javascript, thus making it less error-prone for non-programmers is "correct" XHTML Strict rather than "fooling" the validation by adding attributes via the DOM once the page has loaded I disagree with your first point as multiple external links render this solution less convenient. Your second is fair and I suppose I should have recommended the most optimal solution which would be JS unobtrusively adding an onclick window.open for every anchor that has an href containing "http://" (ie, an externally linking anchor) thus providing the most convenient and "valid" solution. You can find a write up on this here ( perishablepress.com).	sal (67)
646172	2008-03-07 01:07:00	As a programmer myself, I accept your rebuttal (and, indeed, a variation on your method is exactly what I would have done!) ... however, for those that don't want to "delve" into programming, the code I gave is just a simple "copy-and-paste" for each link you want to open in a new window. I just know how people's eyes glaze over when I start giving them chunks of Javascript ... never mind trying to explain the DOM! :)	davehartley (3487)
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