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Re: Frames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Brickley)
Wed May 3 06:50:22 2000
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:28:53 +0100 (BST)
From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
To: Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM>
Cc: regs@nebcorp.com, www-talk@w3.org
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On Wed, 3 May 2000, Bob Stayton wrote:
> The biggest complaint that I get about frames
> is that users cannot bookmark what they see in
> their frames after they have navigated from
> the starting frame content. I never understood
> why not, though. Certainly the browser has
> knowledge of the URLs in each frame. I suspect
> the bookmark data format didn't support anything
> other than single URLs, and since multiple
> frame content cannot be expressed as a single
> URL ...
It's not just bookmarks. The same problem applies to hyperlinks, emailed
recommendations and other mechanisms for sharing and describing Web
referencable content.
Dan
