OK so it's been pointed out to me that HTML5 didn't deprecate target=_blank like I thought. It was just XHTML that removed it, and my method uses HTML5 'data-'

OK so it's been pointed out to me that HTML5 didn't deprecate target=_blank like I thought. It was just XHTML that removed it, and my method uses HTML5 'data-' attributes. So it's pretty irrelevant, just carry on using target=_blank I guess?