On 29 Apr 2009, Richard Porter wrote: > Netsurf's behaviour is a little bit inconsistent or at least > inconvenient with framesets. For example go to > http://www.bestmoments.at/catago/BestMoments/FE/Index/index > > and click on "ZU DEN BILDERN". The main frame changes but the back > icon is not enabled. However the menu allows you to select Navigate > > Back one page. Having gone back to the first page the reverse applies > and you can go forward one page using the menu but not the toolbar > icon. > > You need to click Menu in the main frame, so I can see what's > happening but it's not particularly helpful. It would be better if the > forward and back icons let you step through the 'pages' actually seen > regardless of their structure. I think most browsers do this.
By experimentation with one of my framed sites (no comments on my implementation of these sites please!) the way Netsurf has implemented forward/back via menu allows you to click 'menu' over the frame-pane that you wish to go backwards/forwards on. So, you could click on any frame-pane. Unfortunately, it doesn't update the menu pane when you click using 'right-click' - you have to click menu again to enable further navigation of the same frame-pane. However, Netsurf developers could implement this way of working and still use the navigate buttons, which is what they are there for after all: Click on the frame-pane you wish to navigate, then click on the appropriate Navigate button. -- Cheers Roger "An invisibility cloak that works at optical wavelengths is nowhere in sight"
