222754 - Proprietary HTML code to open links in new tabs?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105409

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[thesh_bugs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I was wondering if you can add support for web-pages to open links in new tabs
using HTML. I think something like this would work well:

<a href="webpage.html" tab="1">Link opens in new tab.</a>

<a href="webpage.html target="targetwindow" tab="1">Link opens in a target
window, and if the window is already loaded it will open in a new tab.</a>

<a href="webpage.html target="targettab" tab="2">Link will open in a target tab,
that would work like the target window just opening in a tab instead.</a>

To the best of my knowledge, any browser that did not support this would just
ignore the "tab="#"" (in fact I tried a simple link with this inserted using IE
and Mozilla 1.5 and there were no problems), so using this shouldn't cause any
problems. If it did cause problems, web-designers would just have to make it a
browser-specific code. I don't think "tab" currently does anything, so using it
wouldn't be a problem either. If it does do something, I'm sure another name
could be used.

I have heard of many people looking for the ability to do this, and I think it
should be implemented.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[thesh_bugs]

If you try and copy that code to test if there are any problems in browsers
currently, it won't work because I forgot to close the quotes on "webpage.html"
on the second and third links.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105409 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105409 ***