- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:25:15 -0000
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Frank Tobin [SMTP:ftobin@uiuc.edu] > > file-listing frame. The two frames also can be scrolled independently. In > general, think of how many non-web applications work; they provide > multiple frames for doing work which can act independent or in unison. > [DJW:] But they are non-*WEB* applications. Unless you start having URLs which are tuples containing the states of all the individual frames, you cannot construct a web based on multi- frame pages. Actually, if the GUI browsers had really thought about the web concept, they might have come up with a system where <link rev="contents"...> would cause a new window to open, for the the new page, if the link came from the referenced resource and cause a window to open for the referenced resource if there were not one already open. (One also needs policies for when to automatically close windows.) Such a scheme would even laod the contents for a deep link to the detail page. Instead, everyone is pretending to be a traditional GUI interface. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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