Re: no target="_blank"

To further the education of mankind, Toby Inkster
<usenet200605@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vouchsafed:

Neredbojias wrote:

I agree with that, but determining a window is markup to me, not
styling.

I never said it was styling -- it's controlling behaviour, which can
be done with Javascript.

Yes, but it should be available without javascript as well. This is not to
deny that a defeat-mechanism should be available to the user.

And even if it were styling, there should have been an attribute in
css _before_ they axed the html "target".

The facility to target particular windows was added to Javascript long
before target was deprecated (not "axed") in HTML.

So was location.href="xxx" and location.replace('xxx'). Ought we to
eliminate html links also?

What's a "cruft"?


From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

cruft /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n. An
unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is
cruft; the TMRC Dictionary correctly noted that attacking it with
a broom only produces more. 2. n. The results of shoddy
construction. 3. vt. [from `hand cruft', pun on `hand craft'] To
write assembler code for something normally (and better) done by
a compiler (see {hand-hacking}). 4. n. Excess; superfluous junk;
used esp. of redundant or superseded code. 5. [University of
Wisconsin] n. Cruft is to hackers as gaggle is to geese; that is,
at UW one properly says "a cruft of hackers".

I was referring to definition 4.

Phew, it's a relief to know that you weren't suggesting I had a hankering
for dust balls.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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