Html Target Attribute not supported

Question

I was just on w3Schools looking at target and found that it is no longer supported by any of the major browsers. A brief google search did not reveal the reason for this? Should

Answer 1

It's still allowed in regular HTML and transitional xHTML, but not in strict xHTML anymore. The idea behind this was that users like to choose for themselves how to open a link, and not have it forced upon them by the browser.