TARGET="_top" in strict HTML ?

[Arthur Connor]

Currently I specified a TARGET attribute inside an <A> tag which is not allowed under strict XHTML.
How do I change the line to meet the requirements of strict HTML?

<A HREF="http://www.targetedoma in.com/" TARGET="_top">. ..</A>

Arty

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: TARGET=&quot;_t op&quot; in strict HTML ?


[f'ups suggested to a more appropriate group]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Jim Royal wrote:
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> In article <ED4Kb.353$Fz1. 278@fe01.usenet server.com>, Keith Bowes
> <do.not@spam.me > wrote:
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> > If you want to use "target" you should use Transitional. You can also
> > cheat with JS, but I wouldn't recommend it.[/color]
>
> Well then, how should one handle the following hypothetical scenario:
>
> Suppose you have a web site that is pushing data in real time, and you
> want to have the browser window refresh periodically.[/color]

HTML Strict doesn't concern itself with such presentation details.
What's a "browser window" when the client agent is a brailler, a
summarising robot, etc. etc.?
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> Further suppose that you have two sets of info that need to refresh
> at different rates. For this, you want two browser windows that have
> been spawned from a common source, with different meta-fresh values.[/color]

HTML Strict doesn't concern itself with such presentation details.
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> Without "target" or Javascript, how do you accomplish this
> transparently?[/color]

Perhaps you're wanting to have too much detailed control over
presentation. Not all client agents present their display using
windows.

But if you don't want what HTML Strict offers, why would you be trying
to use it?

[Nick Kew]

Re: TARGET=&quot;_t op&quot; in strict HTML ?

In article <Pine.LNX.4.53. 0401050648090.1 5141@ppepc56.ph .gla.ac.uk>, one of infinite monkeys
at the keyboard of "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@ph.gla .ac.uk> wrote:
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> But if you don't want what HTML Strict offers, why would you be trying
> to use it?[/color]

Ah, but HTML Strict *does* offer complex functionality and detailed
presentation, through the <script> and <style> elements respectively.
There's nothing wrong with using them, though where and how to do so
is a subject that requires due care and attention.

--
Nick Kew

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: TARGET=&quot;_t op&quot; in strict HTML ?

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Nick Kew wrote:
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> Ah, but HTML Strict *does* offer complex functionality and detailed
> presentation, through the <script> and <style> elements respectively.[/color]

To be pedantic, HTML Strict does not "offer" that functionality;
rather, it delegates that functionality outside of HTML: what HTML
Strict offers is the delegation mechanism, as you say.