Should <link target> (and <base target> for <link>) work? #2617
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In Edge it doesn't work either. |
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Note: I cannot get |
This was referenced May 3, 2017
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I think that if we treat |
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@bzbarsky but would you then also argue it should have the |
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I would be fine with adding it there, yes. Realistically, the main benefit of making |
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In particular, remove their activation behavior, stop them from matching :link and :visited, and stop suggesting that they be focusable areas. This also includes a slight expansion and rearrangement of the link element's section to make it clearer what hyperlinks created by <link> are meant for, contrasting them to <a> and <area> hyperlinks. Closes #4831. Closes #2617. Helps with #5490.
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FWIW <!DOCTYPE html>
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<style>:link { display:block; border:solid red } </style>
<link href="test" target=_blank>
<script>
document.querySelector("link").click()
</script>seems to work in Safari these days. (It does not seem to match |
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In particular, remove their activation behavior, stop them from matching :link and :visited, and stop suggesting that they be focusable areas. This also includes a slight expansion and rearrangement of the link element's section to make it clearer what hyperlinks created by <link> are meant for, contrasting them to <a> and <area> hyperlinks. Closes #4831. Closes #2617. Helps with #5490.
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* Editorial: remove redundant "the" * Meta: default branch rename Also correct a broken link. Not even w3.org URLs are that cool. Helps with whatwg/meta#174. * Editorial: clean up calls to "parse a URL" It actually takes a string, so calls should be clear about that. * Review Draft Publication: January 2021 * Simplify <link>s In particular, remove their activation behavior, stop them from matching :link and :visited, and stop suggesting that they be focusable areas. This also includes a slight expansion and rearrangement of the link element's section to make it clearer what hyperlinks created by <link> are meant for, contrasting them to <a> and <area> hyperlinks. Closes whatwg#4831. Closes whatwg#2617. Helps with whatwg#5490. * Meta: remove demos/offline/* (whatwg#6307) These are no longer needed as of e4330d5. * Meta: minor references cleanup Use more HTTPS and drop obsolete HTML Differences reference. * Editorial: anticlockwise → counterclockwise We use en-US these days. Spotted in https://twitter.com/iso2022jp/status/1352601086519955456. * Use :focus-visible in the UA stylesheet See w3c/csswg-drafts#4278. * Editorial: align with WebIDL and Infra * Fix "update a style block" early return The new version matches implementation reality and CSSWG resolution. The algorithm was also inconsistent, as it looked at whether the element was in a shadow tree or in the document tree, but it was only specified to be re-run if the element becomes connected or disconnected. The CSSWG discussed this in w3c/csswg-drafts#3096 (comment) and http://wpt.live/shadow-dom/ShadowRoot-interface.html tests this. This also matches closer the definition of <link rel="stylesheet">, which does use connectedness (though it uses "browsing-context connected", which is a bit different): https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#link-type-stylesheet * Modernize and refactor simple dialogs This contains a small bug fix, in that confirm() and prompt() said "return" in some cases instead of "return false" or "return null" as appropriate. Other notable changes, all editorial, are: * Factoring out repeated "cannot show simple dialogs" steps, which will likely expand over time (see e.g. whatwg#6297). * Separating out and explaining the no-argument overload of alert(). * Passing the document through to the "printing steps", instead of just having them talk about "this Window object". * Meta: add definition markup for MessageEvent * Remove <marquee> events They are only supported by one engine (Gecko). Closes whatwg#2957. * Clarify when microtasks happen * Ignore COEP on non-secure contexts Fixes whatwg#6328. * Editorial: update URL Standard integration * Editorial: only invoke response's location URL once Complements whatwg/fetch#1149. * Track the incumbent settings and active script in Promise callbacks Closes whatwg#5213. * createImageBitmap(): stop clipping sourceRect to source's dimensions It has been found in whatwg#6306 that this was an oversight at the time of its introduction. Current behavior goes against author expectations and no implementer has opposed the change to "no-clip". Tests: web-platform-tests/wpt#27040. Closes whatwg#6306. * Remove CSP plugin-types blocking With Flash not being supported anymore, the CSP directive plugin-types has lost its main reason for being and is being removed from the Content Security Policy specification: w3c/webappsec-csp#456. This change removes references to the relevant algorithm from the Content Security Policy spec. * Meta: set more dfn types A follow-up to: * whatwg#5694 * whatwg#5916 * Editorial: occuring → occurring * Make all plugin-related APIs no-ops Part of whatwg#6003. * Disallow simple dialogs from different-origin domain iframes Closes whatwg#5407. * Revive @@iterator for PluginArray/MimeTypeArray/Plugin @@iterator is implicitly installed by defining an indexed property getter. Since there is no other way to define it exclusively, this restores some methods back to being indexed getters. This fixes an inadvertent observable behavior change in d4f07b8. * Adjust web+ scheme security considerations to account for FTP removal Also, network scheme is now reduced to HTTP(S) scheme. Helps with whatwg#5375, but form submission issue remains. See whatwg/fetch#1166 for context. * Meta: export pause Nobody but XMLHttpRequest take a dependency on this please. You have been warned. Context: whatwg/xhr#311. * Fix typo: ancestor → accessor Fixes whatwg#6374. Co-authored-by: Dominic Farolino <domfarolino@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> Co-authored-by: Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> Co-authored-by: Emilio Cobos Álvarez <emilio@crisal.io> Co-authored-by: Momdo Nakamura <xmomdo@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Yutaka Hirano <yhirano@chromium.org> Co-authored-by: Shu-yu Guo <syg@chromium.org> Co-authored-by: Kaiido <tristan.fraipont@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Antonio Sartori <anton.sartori@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> Co-authored-by: Ikko Ashimine <eltociear@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carlos IL <carlosjoan91@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Kagami Sascha Rosylight <saschanaz@outlook.com> Co-authored-by: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>
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In Firefox this works.
In Chrome and Safari it does not, but it seems like a simple
<link href=...>.click()doesn't work either in those browsers?If we treat
<link>as a hyperlink it seems better to be consistent?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: