You were faster than I Ferdinand, Thank you for your explaination.
Regards, Cyriaque,
Ferdinand Soethe a écrit :
I think it would be great to have optional support for advanced features of smarter browsers. Though that means you would have to support several access options (smart and dumb) for the same browser. I guess this is what views are all about?!
David Crossley wrote:
DC> I don't understand your intention, so this comment DC> might be off-track ...
My understanding of this is that a couple of browsers like Firefox and Mozilla support a sidebar (second pane) that can be used for having a second permanent window area to support all kinds of extra info see http://www.granneman.com/webdev/browsers/mozillafirefoxnetscape/sidebars.htm.
So in order to support this in a useful way, all navigational elements would need to be moved to a second set of sidebar pages while header stuff like Logos etc would still be needed at the top (which might be different for PDAs).
The technology of a sidebar seems quite similar to Framesets. Create independent sidebar pages and use links with target='content' to open pages in the main content pane.
More on this in See http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/sidebar_how.jsp http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/sidebar_example.jsp
Conclusion: It might make sense to implement sidebar support and frame-support together since it only requires one more page with the frameset elements.
_However_ if my understanding is correct so far, I wonder what advantage there is in supporting sidebars or frames apart from keeping the menu in sight while scrolling through a long page. And this can (and should) also be achieved using CSS.
I just raised this in a new topic "Why are navigational element are not static when scrolling long pages?"
And since, in order to achieve real improvements (such as having menues that don't cause so much traffic), we would need to use client side programming anyway, why not make that standards conforming and client independent?
Am I making sense?
-- Ferdinand Soethe
