- From: Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:21:17 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
- cc: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
On 2:51 PM 8/31/00 "Tantek Celik" <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > A URL (or URI) is nothing but a reference to a resource somewhere. > It's not a "name", it's not a "full reflection of state" (except > perhaps "data:" URLs), and it's certainly not guaranteed to exist or > be complete. It is your first sentence that identifies the fundamental problem with frames, IMO. If I send you a url to a story on the NY Times web site, sure - it will get rendered differently on your browser due to cookies, javascript, etc., but I *can* give you a url to that unique story on the site. In a framed site, the same thing is not possible. You have to give convoluted instructions - go to the main page, click on this, click on this, follow this, click on this, scroll down 3 pages, click on this, then see the story. You can't give a single url into a framed document. For me, this is a major problem, esp when I need to send my mom a link, for example. -- Jim Correia Bare Bones Software, Inc. correia@barebones.com <http://web.barebones.com>
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