[whatwg] Target Attribute Values

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com
Fri May 4 01:10:45 PDT 2007


Sander Tekelenburg wrote:

>> , and encourage UAs to indicate when a link will open in a
>> different top-level browsing context (e.g. by double-underlining
>> instead of single-underlining).
> 
> FWIW, iCab[*] indicateds such cases by a change of cursor upon
> hovering over the link. (You get the same cursor when you Cmd-click
> or Cmd-Shift-click the link, to load it in a new window on purpose.)
> This way you can keep such UA functionaility in the chrome -- no need
> to mess with the content's presentation itself.
> 
> 
> [*] <http://icab.de/>

Hmm. We'd need to think up a variation of that for when navigating by
keyboard or switch rather than mouse. (I can't work out how to tab 
between anchors in iCab, so I can't see how it handles such cases, if at 
all.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis




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