- From: John T. Whelan <whelan@physics.utah.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:22:40 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
David Norris writes, about the behavior of links in a text/html OBJECT, >Perhaps some method of specifying the behavior would be prudent. How about the TARGET attribute of the link? I'd say the default behavior should be to replace the OBJECT or the current frame within the OBJECT, but we could define new values "_objself", "_objparent" and "_objtop" which would be equivalent to the targets "_self", "_parent" and "_top" appearing in the document containing the OBJECT. Another possibility is to say that the "_parent" and "_self" values are indeed treated as if the OBJECT were an independent HTML document, but TARGET="_top" would replace the entire browser window, containing document, frameset and all, while TARGET="_object" would bring up the new document withing the OBJECT, even if called from within a frame in the object. Then "_objparent" and "_objself" would still be treated described above. Speaking of nested framesets and OBJECTS, should links outside the OBJECT be able to target frames inside the OBJECT by name? John T. Whelan whelan@iname.com http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
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