My personal take is that any link that is meant to forcibly open a new window is b0rken, in that it's for *me* to decide if I want that link to open in a new window or not.
The link isn't b0rked, your browser is. HTML can't "forcibly" open a new window on your desktop. Your consent must be given. If you choose to use a browser that doesn't allow you to control that, then you are implicitly giving your consent.
I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that you surf sites other than Perl Monks. Are you going to petition all of them to remove the "target" attribute from their links?
The fact is that the target attribute is useful. And it isn't going anywhere. If you don't like it, you can avoid its effects... but that's an itch you have to scratch yourself.
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"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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