- From: Holger Wahlen <wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 02:24:29 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
I'm afraid there's yet another problem complicating the issue of accessing frameset instances. <s> I haven't been concerned much with frames until now, so I've just now used the 4.0 draft to make myself a bit more familiar with it; apologies in case I only misunderstood something there. Let's imagine I want to construct my page with an initial frameset like this: ------------------------- | 1 | 2 | ------------------------- | | | | | 3 | | | | | ------------------------- At the beginning frame 2 contains a wide logo, frame 3 a welcome text ... <FRAMESET ROWS="50,*"> <FRAMESET COLS="*,500"> <FRAME SRC="getindex.html"> <FRAME SRC="logo.gif"> </FRAMESET> <FRAME SRC="welcome.html" NAME="main"> </FRAMESET> ... and the file getindex.html in frame 1 basically only consists of one link <A HREF="menu.html" target="_parent">Display menu ...</A> that loads a menu bar "into the immediate frameset parent" of frame 1, which is - if I understand things correctly - the combination of frames 1 and 2. Thus after clicking there the screen looks like this: ------------------------- | menu bar | ------------------------- | | | | | ... | | | | | ------------------------- Did I get that right? Now you might want to link to this instance of the frameset, because you don't like my logo and think your readers should have the menu bar at once anyway - how do you do that? The ideas brought up for accessing frameset instances so far have been based on some way of telling the browser "start with that frameset, then load page foo1 into frame bar1, foo2 into bar2, and so on"; even the case of recursive framesets resulting from FRAMESET definitions in different files could be covered with that. But the frame in the upper part of the pictured screen doesn't have any name, so how can you tell the browser where the menu bar belongs? ____ |__| / Holger // mailto:wahlen@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de ____ | |/|/ Wahlen // http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~wahlen/
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