Ticket #1380 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

open links in popups?

Reported by: jmorliaguet Assigned to:
Priority: P2 Milestone: CPS 3.4.3
Component: CPS (global) Version: TRUNK
Severity: normal Keywords: accessibility navigation target
Cc:

Description

There used to be an option to open links (flexible layout) in popups. I think this was removed because the implementation relied on target="_new" which isn't XHTML strict-compliant.

but this can be implemented in javascript while still being accessible:

see for instance http://www.quirksmode.org/js/accessibility.html

I'm not 100% sure that popups are a good thing for navigation, see for instance: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html

but it seems that in some cases it make sense

Change History

02/08/06 13:09:37 changed by madarche

  • owner deleted.
  • version changed from unspecified to TRUNK.
  • milestone changed from unspecified to CPS 3.4.1.

Yes popups are not good for navigation (they are valuable in some situations though). Since sometime some corporate clients ask for links in popups we should provide this functionality.

And yes since the "target" attribute is forbidden in XHTML Strict opening a popup through JavaScript? is the way to go.

04/24/06 17:17:03 changed by madarche

  • keywords changed from accessibility navigation to accessibility navigation target.

05/19/06 17:17:31 changed by sfermigier

  • milestone changed from CPS 3.4.1 to CPS 3.4.3.

10/06/06 17:37:45 changed by madarche

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Fixed in changesets [49411], [49412], [49413] by providing the openLinkInPopup JavaScript? method to open links in popup in an accessible way and not breaking conformance to the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.