- From: Joachim Ekstrand <swedieman@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:13:53 +1000
- To: www-html@w3.org
The first time I ran into html was 1995 or 96 maybe. At then most web sites where using frames. I never liked the kind of pages with visible frame borders and disturbing background images, which made it impossible to read the text. But I did like the idea of separating info into several documents. After several years of mostly C++ programming I have recently started looking at web development again and been learning PHP and CSS. Now days frames are almost banned and what I have heard from web-developers is "only use frames when you must". I can understand the many of the arguments why not, but I cannot find a good way to having a "frame" (or table or div) separated into another document. Also I like the behaviour of not needing to reload the whole page. I would like to have something like a div-tag (probably formatted by a style-sheet) that has a contents source property so you can change the contents and just load the contents in the div-tag. Something like: <div id="leftBox"></div> <a href="leftBox.content='page1'">Page 1</a> the div-tag might now become superfluous if you don't use it for formatting/layout. A simular behavior I believe I can achieve with some Javascript, but then it would not be nice and clear code. And I would not get the behaviour of just reload the contents in the div-tag only. Or is there already a good way to achieve a behaviour somewhat like this?.... Joachim Ekstrand
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