[webkit-dev] _blank hrefs and new windows

[David Kilzer]

Great!  I just didn't recall seeing that listed before.

Dave


Srinivas Rao M Hamse <msrinirao at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Srinivas Rao M Hamse