248396 - Bad handling of links with "target" attribute with bad name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105693

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Shift]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux; fr, fr_FR) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040402 Firefox/0.8

When the target of a link is not respecting W3C specifications 
( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.16 ) gecko will ignore the 
target attribute. 
 
So except _blank, _self, _parent and _top all other target names who don't 
begin by an alphabetic character will be ignore. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://shift.free.fr/trash/bugs/konqui/target.html 
2. Click on target="_foobar" 
 
Actual Results:  
Askjeeves site is open in a new window 

Expected Results:  
Askjeeves site will open in the current window

Comment 1

[Shift]

W3C says "SHOULD3 but to my mine it is important to respect this because new 
reserved names will appear in the futur specifications and so webmasters won't 
used underscore to prefix the name of their target because in the futur nobody 
will know how this will be handle. 
 
By ignoring bad target the webmaster have to use good name to make work his 
links. It is better to force him to learn W3C specifications. 
 
For information Internet Explorer introduce new "reserved" target names 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/target.asp 
_search and _media 

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

making a guess at component...
or maybe it's the windowwatcher which does this stuff?

Comment 3

[jon rekai]

New window or ignore?

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/present/frames.html#h-16.3.2

16.3.2 Target semantics

4. If any target attribute refers to an unknown frame F, the user agent should
create a new window and frame, assign the name F to the frame, and load the
resource designated by the element in the new frame.


http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/types.html#h-6.16

6.16 Frame target names

Except for the reserved names listed below, frame target names (%FrameTarget; in
the DTD) must begin with an alphabetic character (a-zA-Z). User agents should
ignore all other target names.

Comment 4

[Dan M]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105693 ***