Jeff Garland wrote:

> > Sure, frames are allowed, as are CSSes, which are more powerful than
> > most people know.
>
> We need to be very careful with frames.  Used incorrectly they make it very
> difficult to create a link to a page because the URL of the 'target' page
> does not appear in the browser bar.  This is a serious problem b/c it makes
> getting the link to respond to a question, etc much harder...

I don't like frames, either. Most of the time they just eat up space on the 
screen, while adding very little. Maybe I'm just paranoid about desktop 
space ;-)

> > I think you *can* implement a collapsible hierarchy with frames, just
> > by automatically generating the right index pages.  I don't think
> > it's really helpful to have collapsibility at every level of
> > hierarchy anyway.  Those interfaces where everything collapses tend
> > to be one of those "script annoyances" I was talking about earlier ;-)
>
> I agree -- I'm not fond of the collapsing trees either.

Guess there's not a lot of Web designers out there, so if we run into a 
problems with JavaScript, it can be a nightmare. OTOH, the code Reece has 
sent looks simple and even works. But maybe just list of libraries in main 
Boost docs is the simplest thing to try first?

- Volodya


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