Pray, enlighten me then.

I use FireFox these days. What magic incantation do I perform to make it ignore target?

Frankly, most sites that I deal with *don't* use that "feature". In addition, I *do* often open links in new tabs. I'd be mostly mollified if I could tell Firefox that "target=_blank" should open a new tab.

...and, now that I've done a bit of research, I find that there *is* and extension for Firefox that probably will do what I want, and also that the Firefox team has considered the whole mess of just *how* target should work with tabs and all that. If I read it correctly, Firefox 1.5 may have improved control over this matter.

Now, I'm not withdrawing my request to deprecate the use of the target attribute. I didn't say "ban it outright". I started with something less drastic. I'd like to see reasoned discussion of the benefits of "target" in the context of links on PM.

I use FireFox these days. What magic incantation do I perform to make it ignore target?

First choice: Get the tabbrowser preferences extension.

Second choice: Get the greasemonky extension and then find and install a script called killblank.user.js.

Sorry, I don't have links handy right now.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

Well, there's some truth in that. I'm not sure. But if many people fix their browsers to ignore those attributes, than more sites may use javascript to open links in a new window (some sites do that now too), which is even worse than the current situation. Surely, you can block those pop-ups easily, but then the page doesn't get loaded anywhere, it's not just that it's loaded in the same window.

(Also note that there's also a better reason of using the target attribute: loading pages to the correct frame on framed pages. It's only the case when it opens a new window that should be ignored.)