- From: John T. Whelan <whelan@physics.utah.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 22:00:52 -0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
Garth Wallace: >> A while back there was a discussion about frames being replaced by >> <OBJECT type="text/html"> and CSS absolute positioning. I recently >> realized a problem--how would you create the equivalent of resizable >> frames with such an arrangement? Braden McDaniel: >What's more, how would you target them? That one seems easy. OBJECT already supports a NAME attribute (although ID would probably be more appropriate). TARGET="_top" becomes the browser window itself, TARGET="_parent" the document containing the OBJECT in which the link appears, etc. That wouldn't even require a change to the HTML 4.0 Transitional DTD, just a change in interpretation. >(parallelling a discussion on www-html) At the risk of too much of that discussion seeping over here, it seems like a whole lot of work would need to be done on CSS implementation, and a bit on CSS itself, before FRAME could be replaced by OBJECT. The targeting questions should have been long dealt with by the time that became a reality, namely in the process of making OBJECT a complete substitute for IFRAME. (Which shouldn't require stylesheets.) John T. Whelan whelan@iname.com http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
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