Is there any work being done to finalize
the XFrames standard? It would be nice to have this worked on so
that it is a recommendation and can be implemented, eg by Firefox or Konqueror.
As well, it would be very nice to add
at least 1 more option to the XFrames definition - the ability to define
frames on different screens, eg:
<group compose="multiscreen">
<frame xml:id="palm" source="google.com"/>
<frame xml:id="bigscreen1" source="tv://ntsc/1"/>
<frame xml:id="bigscreen2" source="prettyPicture.jpg"/>
</group>
This probably needs to be controllable permission
wise, but it would be really nice to allow multi-screen AJAX applications
to run with this and have well defined locations for where the frames appear.
(Yes, some of us need LOTS of screen real estate - some users will
have 5 monitors.)
The other thing this would allow on a mobile browser
is well-defined control of additional off-device browser windows - for
instance, consider a Palm device as "screen 0", and an additional
large screen remote device as "screen 1". You point the
IR device at the large screen, load a web page with XFrame support, and
your IR device controls the large screen. Perhaps that large screen
supports a "tv" URL type - you can then control the large screen
device just from the web page by selecting what channel and it changes
to, for example:
source="tv://ntsc/28"
or, now you want to browse on the big screen, you
do your searches on a small-screen, setup with a local CSS to change screen
where it loads to default to "bigscreen1", and voila - you have
a Palm controlled large-screen browser window.
Thanks,
Bill Wallace
Agfa HealthCare.