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 was briefly taken out of html5, but they put it back in. Feel free to continue using it as all browsers should support it.

See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp ... You will see target attribute is still supported there.