Comments on: Purple Top http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/24/purple-top/ Jonathan Fenocchi's personal weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/24/purple-top/comment-page-1/#comment-186 David Wed, 25 May 2005 15:40:22 +0000 http://slightlyremarkable.com/2005/05/purple-top#comment-186 Hmm, just noticed another thing, you could use lower case event handlers to make it compatible with XHTML markup. Hmm, just noticed another thing, you could use lower case event handlers to make it compatible with XHTML markup.

]]> By: Jona http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/24/purple-top/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Jona Wed, 25 May 2005 12:53:08 +0000 http://slightlyremarkable.com/2005/05/purple-top#comment-184 Oops is right! Sorry, Dave, that wasn’t supposed to be a link — it’s supposed to show actual code. I think it will make more sense now if you read it. Oops is right! Sorry, Dave, that wasn’t supposed to be a link — it’s supposed to show actual code. I think it will make more sense now if you read it.

]]> By: David http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/05/24/purple-top/comment-page-1/#comment-183 David Wed, 25 May 2005 07:28:25 +0000 http://slightlyremarkable.com/2005/05/purple-top#comment-183 <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fslightlyremarkable.com%2F2005%2F05%2Fpurple-top" rel="nofollow">Oops</a>, you just used target with a strict DTD. <abbr title="In my opinion">IMO</abbr> the best way to open a popup is like so:<code><a href="page.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false">Page</a></code> It gets around pop-up blockers because the window.open is in the onclick event handler itself and not in some function and it will still work for non-JS browsers. Oops, you just used target with a strict DTD.

IMO the best way to open a popup is like so:<a href="page.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false">Page</a>

It gets around pop-up blockers because the window.open is in the onclick event handler itself and not in some function and it will still work for non-JS browsers.

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