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target = "_sidebar"

Postby mayhemer » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:46 pm

Firefox has interesting option to open a bookmark in a side bar and let a page behave as a regular sidebar in the browser window (same history or bookmarks sidebars).

This could potentially be useful for some kind of offline applications to let them open in a sidebar by default, just by clicking a link and not forcing user - limited to Firefox - create a bookmark, make it open in a sidebar and then manually invoke it. Opinions?

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RE: target = "_sidebar"

Postby mskinner » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:33 pm

I am a fan of the sidebar - although I miss it since switching to Opera.

Would you expect all (future) user agents to support the _sidebar target (even if they handle the link in differing ways)?

Do you think that current user agents would degrade gracefully enough (opening the link in a new window or tab)?

There's also an interesting post on target="_tab" which probably asks similar questions: http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=185

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Postby zcorpan » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:49 am

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... pe-sidebar

In Opera you can open bookmarks in the sidebar by checking the "Open in panel" checkbox in a bookmark's properties.
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