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Re: Frames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Perrell)
Wed May 3 16:57:53 2000
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From: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:10:38 -0700
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From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sco.COM>:
> 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 is certainly possible to create bookmarkable framesets (see
<http://hpaa/test/topdoc.asp>), but this loses the persistence of javascript
variables and functions declared in the top frame.
It is also possible to bookmark a framed document in NS Navigator and MSIE
by right-clicking in the frame, but not many users seem to be aware of this.
David Perrell
