@shacker Afaik it used to be deprecated but not in HTML5:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/a.html

> The target attribute on the a element was deprecated in a previous version of HTML, but is no longer deprecated, as it useful in Web applications, particularly in combination with the iframe element.

If we do use `window.open`, we'll need to bind an extra event to every element, this seems a bit like overkill and I don't think we need the extra event if we can just do it with `target`.