- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:21:12 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 08:50a +0300 08/22/2000, Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > > > Tech Lover (Greg) wrote: > > >Looking at the HTTP header can I identify that the page has frames ? > > > > Nope, they're all type text/html so you have to read the page content. > > And now my curiosity's piqued. Whatcha makin'? :) > >I don't know what Tech Lover was thinking about, but it's not hard for >me to imagine a reason for knowing in advance whether a page has frames. >Or, more exactly, whether an HTML document is a frameset document or >a normal document. This _could_ be handled using parameters to the >text/html media type if parameters were allowed there. > >In fact, if frames had been introduced to HTML in a sensible way, >then it would have been done so that selection between a normal (noframes) >version and a frameset version of a page would be based on content >negotiation instead of <noframes> things. How nice that would have been... -Walter Almost as great as the lack of foresight in the world is the lack of hindsight. --me
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