Re: lynx-dev Tables (once again) and virtual lynx pages

[Chuck Martin]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:05:42AM -0700, pAb-032871 wrote:
[snip]
> RIGHT!  But vertical scrolling can already do that.  Why not
> have it write a whole frameset into a single HTML cache-file,
> and then render that?  Yes, Lynx would have to ignore the multiple
[snip]
> corrupted or something].  With Lynx, it would be a lot simpler
> because you actually WANT to read it all as one document.
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I disagree.  A frameset is a collection of documents, each of which
can generally stand alone.  Using a GUI browser, if you click on a link
in one frame, it may very well load a new document in a *different*
frame, while leaving the rest of the frames alone.  You no longer have
a document with a single URL that you can bookmark or send to someone
who you think might be interested.

If you put all of the frames in a single "cache-file", what do you do
when you follow a link?  Split the cached document up and splice in the 
new document?  Replace the whole thing with the new document?  What if
the link you followed was a menu frame, and the new document is a text
frame?  Replacing the whole frameset with the new text document means
you no longer have the menu frame on the new page, but cutting and
splicing seems to be a lot of unnecessary complexity, and something
that would probably be very difficult to implement.  I think the present
way of doing frames is as good as any.  Personally, I think frames are
stupid, and hardly *ever* serve a useful purpose, even in graphic browsers.

Chuck


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