[ale] target="_blank"

[James Sumners]

I concur with the previous reply. I'm also a little surprised that
Firefox opens a new tab when the target is "_blank" instead of a new
window. It must be treating named links, which `target="new_window"`,
differently than unnamed links (`target="_blank"`).

Considering the situation you describe, I would suggest using the
target attribute with its designed purpose -- frames. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#h-16.3 for more
information. Frames are god awful ugly, but they fix your problem much
easier than other solutions (e.g. asynchronous javascript).

On 5/21/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:37 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> > I found that target="_blank" does bring up a new tab in Firefox, but
> > only a window in IE.
> >
> > My problem is that I have a page counter on abc.html.  There is a
> > link on abc.html that points to def.html which is on the same
> > server.  On def.html there is a link to xyz.html that points to a
> > page on another server.  When someone finally gets back to abc.html
> > from xyz.htm through def.html, I do not want the counter on abc.html
> > to increment.  With Firefox, that is what happens, but not with IE.
>
> IE is more aggressive about caching connection details and credentials
> that Firefox (thus some of it's security issues).Firefox uses ech tab as
> a session (I think, haven't looked in a long time - may have changed) so
> a return visit to abc.html will be a new visit.
>
> IE does not do "tabs" but a mutated thing that isn't tabs.
> >
> > I agree that new windows can be vexing, but in this case, I think it
> > makes things easier.
> >
> > Is there a way to modify the html so that the counter will not update using IE?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Terry Bailey

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