Ah thanks for explaining
But all what you have said didnt really make any sense me, to be honest I don't care about what W3C agrees on, and I dont rly care about XHTML validation. all I need is click the link and have the acp opened in new tab
CTRL+ Click or middle Click or .. or .. or ... that doesnt really make my life easier and obviously doest make lots of people lives easier as well. i have LOTS of people asking me how to open acp in new tab and around 3 ipb modders have written tutorials on their sites to explain it which means its something People want!
and now that's what i care about not some XHTML validation stuff
also if you talk technically acp links wont be seen by XHTML validators as its hidden by an if statement unless you allow guests to use ur ACP lol!!
so again what you said is a really very weak point of view
Oh and about the User's decision thing... Since its an ACP links so only My self andmy admins will use it .... so if they dont like the "Open in New Window" they can leave and never come to my site again lol!
Which I'm pretty sure it wont happen, as they will never even care to complain about it!.
Anyways if IPS added it to IPB that would be good if not i can always use my hook that opens it in new tab