- From: E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 05:45:28 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
Thanks to Holger Wahlen and Martin J. Duerst for their comments and ideas about my initial suggestion for using new URL semantics to link to frameset instances. Another approach that occured to me after reading their thoughts is the following: <A HREF="http://www.foo.com/frameset.html"> <FRAMEHREF SRC="nav9.html" TARGET="nav"> <FRAMEHREF SRC="cows.html" TARGET="content"> The cows document with the nav9 navbar </A> is an interesting frameset instance. I'm not committed to "FRAMEHREF" at all (perhaps even the FRAME element itself could be shoehorned into service inside an anchor element), but the general idea is this: By embedding one or more "frame-foo parameter" elements inside an anchor element, we can indicate what documents should be loaded into which named frames. * The anchor element itself links to the default frameset document, which sets up the frame dimensions and names. * However, instead of loading the initial documents into named frames, browsers will take the presence of a frame-foo element to mean that the indicated document should be loaded into the TARGET named frame instead. With something like this, at least Web authors would be able to link to a particular frameset, but bookmarking would still be problematic. This proposal leaves URL semantics alone, and makes this more squarely a www-html discussion. Maybe something like this for HTML 5.2 or 6.1...? -- E. Stephen Mack <estephen@emf.net> http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
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