- From: Peter Brawley <pb@artfulsoftware.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:19:45 -0500
Rimantas, >How on Earth can you bookmark database table rows? Your database knows >nothing where its rows go, the browser does not know where does HTML >originates in: it may be DB, may be XML transformed via XSLT, may be static >files on the server. ?! In a data-driven treeview, one node represents one table row. PB ----- Rimantas Liubertas wrote: >> OK and for clarity's sake I'll again repeat framesets don't solve the >> navigation problem, they just make it easier to solve than any other >> available proved solution, and this wee problem is that browsers own >> bookmarks, database users own database table rows, so usually you shouldn't >> bookmark database table rows, and much follows from that, therefore saying >> server issues don't bear on this issue is IMO astonishingly & quite wrongly >> blinkered. >> > > How on Earth can you bookmark database table rows? Your database knows > nothing where its rows go, the browser does not know where does HTML > originates in: it may be DB, may be XML transformed via XSLT, may be static > files on the server. > > All you can bookmark is some URL. On the server there must be an > application, which maps that particular URL to this particular database > row, retrieves it, transforms it into HTML and sends to browser. > This application then is the right place to solve that "bookmarking" > problem. > It starts to look like you are trying to solve server side problems > (restricting access, of whatever denying bookmarking is supposed to solve) > via client side. Not going to work. > > Regards, > Rimantas > -- > http://rimantas.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.20/2440 - Release Date: 10/16/09 06:32:00 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20091016/af817289/attachment.htm>
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