Open in new windows with HTML 4.01 Strict

As every web-programmer should know, in HTML 4.01 strict the "target" property of the tags is no longer allowed. I would like to personally thank the WWW consortium for this, because I hate links that automatically open in a new window (while my best friend Firefox helps me keeping them in new tabs instead of new windows). However, under certain circumstances (?) may be desiderable to disturb the user by forcing the browser not to change the address of the current page (i.e. you don't want users to go away from your page); strange but true, you don't care about breaking the user's browsing history, but you would feel as a profanation to break the W3C standards. Here comes to help Javascript: just replace every

<a href="http://..." target="_blank">

with

<a href="http://..." onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;">

Welcome to the dark side of standard compliance!