Opening Text Links In New Tab/Page - You could get your users to install Chrome frame for IE ;o)

WelshStew

You could get your users to install Chrome frame for IE ;o)

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CloudedVision

If 98% of all users install that, it will be absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, until Google Wave takes over the world, it won't happen.

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Mike Hopley

No, it's not compliant. All that's happening is that the validator is not seeing the "final" version of the document. Use the FF Web Dev toolbar to view the generated source, and then feed that to the validator; you'll find that your markup is invalid.


Yes, and with a specific reason: target="_blank" is appropriate behaviour for some web apps. It's still a bad idea to use it for normal web page linking, however.


For normal links (including links to external sites!), target="_blank" will continue to be a bad practice, because it's a user-hostile behaviour. Just because it will become syntactically valid (for an HTML 5 document) does mean it will be a good idea.

There's nothing wrong with starting to use HTML 5 now. Remember that we've all been using CSS 2.1, despite it being only a candidate recommendation. Of course, only a subset of HTML 5 is currently supported by browsers -- so you have to be selective (but the same is true of CSS 2.1).

Equally, there's nothing wrong with not using HTML 5. It's up to you.

At the moment, HTML 5 is not especially useful. Then again, it's not harmful either.