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Right, but now you have 20 years worth of content which depends on the current behavior....

• homakov 11y ago
  On this particular behavior unlikely
  • bzbarsky 11y ago
    What makes you think this is unlikely? On the contrary, I think it's _very_ likely there are things depending on it. I don't expect there to be a huge number of them, but I also expect them to disproportionately be in things like intranet deployments where it's hard to even get measurements. :(
    • homakov 11y ago
      A link with _blank + expected to change/interact with opener? Maybe there's a few, but most cross domain transports would use window.open() manually.
      • bzbarsky 11y ago
        Well, window.open() obviously has the same problem, with the same solution being proposed: the caller of window.open opts in to not allow the thing being opened to interact with it. We could have different default behaviors for the two cases, of course: opt-in for links and opt-out for window.open. But I still suspect that even just the link case is not as uncommon as one might wish. Happy to see data proving me wrong, though!