[webkit-dev] _blank hrefs and new windows

[Srinivas Rao M Hamse]

Hi David,

There is already a logged bug. Is this not sufficient ?

http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16562


regards,
Srinivas.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:53 PM, David Kilzer <ddkilzer at webkit.org> wrote:

> Artem,
>
> Please file a bug on <https://bugs.webkit.org/> with a reproducible test
> case.
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
>
> Artem Ananiev <Artem.Ananiev at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
> > I have just tried GtkLauncher and it doesn't handle _blank target also.
> > Thus, it looks like a problem in a shared WebKit code, not specific to
> > out Java port...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Artem
> >
> > Artem Ananiev wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have experienced the following problem with WebKit (Java port). The
> > > page code is simple:
> > >
> > >   <a href="a.html" target="_blank">Open window</a>
> > >   <a href="javascript:window.open('a.html', '_blank')">Open window</a>
> > >
> > > When I right-click on the first link and select 'Open in a new window'
> > > from context menu, a new window is created and shown - that's fine.
> > > However, left-click on the first link loads the page 'a.html' in the
> > > same window - this looks strange to me as the target is _blank.
> > >
> > > The second link behaves as expected: it opens a new window with
> > > left-click and does nothing with right click.
> > >
> > > I suppose target="_blank" is handled completely differently than
> opening
> > > a new window with a context menu. Is it related to popup blocking and
> > > different policies in FrameLoaderClient class? Another strange thing
> is
> > > that I couldn't find any references to ChromeClient::createWindow()
> > > method - it is responsible for creating a new window, at least
> triggered
> > > from context menu - other than from ContextMenuController...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Artem
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Srinivas Rao M Hamse
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