Re: [Mason] update part of page only

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:09:45 -0800

I read all over the web why people don't like frames - which is patially why I posted this in the first place. I don't understand what's wrong with frames. In my situation, it seems logical to use them. All my web users will be using IE5+ or Firefox so they can see frames. Will everyone have _javascript_? Probably more people using frames than _javascript_. I just don't like the idea of the whole page refreshing - will look bad.

K.

Oliver Jeeves wrote: 
Kristian Nilssen wrote:
  
I am making a viewer component for a sequence of images. Usual stuff - 
start, stop, next frame, previous frame, animation speed. How can I tell 
just the image part to update - I don't want the whole page to refresh 
when a new frame is due to be drawn.

K.
    

This isn't really a mason question.

However, there are several ways you can do this:

First, you could use a frameset, and have links load a new URL in the
frame, which contains only the image. However, nobody likes using frames.

Secondly, you could use _javascript_ to change the 'src' attribute of your
image element.

However, I'd try and aim to have as little processing required to draw
the rest of the page as possible, so that you can redraw the whole page
with no significant difference in the user experience. Even if you go
for the frames of _javascript_ approach, you ought to have it work this
way too as a fall back for accessibility reasons.

-Oli

  
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