[ale] Window

[James Sumners]

To clarify:

The "target=_blank" function is essentially a hack. Every modern
browser knows to interpret it as "open a new window," but that's as
much control as you have. The client gets to choose how that request
is handled. All you are doing is suggesting to the client that you,
the designer, would like a new window. That could never happen, as far
as you know. The viewer could have his client configured to
_completely ignore_ such a request and open the link in the same
window (as I have mine configured).

On 8/20/07, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Same answers from your previous thread still apply --
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.ale/52138/focus=52142
>
> On 8/20/07, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When target = _blank is used, Firefox works beautifully with a new
> > tab.  Will IE ever do this?  In IE, when target = _blank is used, is
> > there any way to make the window come up in the middle of the screen
> > or if it can be done, is this function of the browser?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Terry Bailey
> >
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>
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> CH:D 59
>


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59