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Posted: September 20th, 2006 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: Web-Browsers, Web-Design | 1 Comment »

Name a graphical browser that doesn’t support tabbed browsing. Must be an old fashion browser. While your at your browser, you could click on a link and the destination page will open according to the target set for the link clicked.

The current available targets are:

  • _blank
  • _self
  • _top
  • _parent

While specifying any frame name would open the link in the targeted frame. Okay, that’s all old info. Now, with all the tabs that we open on our browsers everyday, don’t we need a new target propery-value for the A tag? Don’t we need the _tab target?

Tabs have become a kind of standard feature in most of the browsers, so don’t we need JS triggers for tabs as well? that is something like tab(URL, toggleBackgroundForgroundOption) in JS as well? So what we basically need is 4 things. HTML update, JS update, Browsers update, and web-developers implementation.

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One Comment on “target=”_tab””

  1. 1 uaecreatives said at 9:13 pm on September 24th, 2006:

    IE6 doesnt have tabs, while Firefox does. Now Flock (Flock.com) also imitates Firefox in almost all its features. I use Flock as it has an inbuilt Photobucket/Flickr photo uploader and a drag-n-drop into your blog application.