[whatwg] The target="" attribute

[Bill Mason]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Mason wrote:
>> 3) The back button is not considered reliable as a navigation aid if 
>> target=_blank is not in use.
> 
> Can you elaborate on why this is?

I don't particularly believe that this is true. I made that statement in 
accepting for the sake of argument someone else's assertion from earlier 
in the thread: [1]

> Because the Back button is a horribly awkward interface for navigating, 
> especially for getting back to pages you visited a few minutes ago. (In 
> some browsers the Back button has a visible associated menu, but it's 
> hard to open -- and it relies on page <title>s, which readers probably 
> didn't notice when first scanning those pages, again because of poor 
> browser design.)

[1] 
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-April/011104.html

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