[whatwg] Should target '_search' be taken as part of HTML 5 spec?
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jul 28 17:12:34 PDT 2009
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Honza Bambas wrote:
>
> Target '_search' makes a link open in a sidebar (Opera) or sidebar-like
> window (IE). For some offline web apps would be cool to open sidebar by
> just one click. In other browsers (Firefox) web content could be open in
> a sidebar only by creating a bookmark, marking it as to open in a
> sidebar, use (click) that bookmark.
>
> So, there are tendencies and voices to open web content in a sidebar in
> all browsers but it is not taken as a standard. I would really like this
> feature to be available in all browsers.
HTML5 supports this use case using rel=sidebar.
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Gavin Sharp wrote:
>
> Firefox used to have this behavior, but it was accidentally broken prior
> to 3.0 (opened a new tab instead). We then removed it in 3.0.2 because
> only one person had noticed the change in behavior, and it didn't seem
> worth the code complexity or maintenance cost.
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438526 has more details.
> Comment 7 in that bug implies that IE 7 only supports if you enable a
> non-default preference option.
I haven't added target=_search since it does not seem browser vendors want
to implement it.
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