Mary,
I've always try to use either target="_blank" or target="new"
for external links. It does put the new page in front of mine,
but when they close the window, mine is still there. It also
serves to avoid copyright issues involved in placing another's
site in a frame.
The way framed sites work, I don't know how you can avoid
having them return to your index page (or, the one that created
the frames to begin with.) If you trie using the "view source"
command, you usually only see the source for the code that
creates the frame. Only by clicking in a frame with the right
mouse button (Win systems) are you able to "view source" an
individually framed page. Most browsers only remember the URL
for the "frame creator" page after leaving the framed site.
That's why clicking the "back" button doesn't return you to the
same set of framed pages that it left (unless the leaving was
done from the original set of pages displayed on entering the
framed site.)
Hope this helps clear it up some.
Tom Fosson
At 05:14 PM 1/22/99 -0600, Mary McWilliams Johnson wrote:
>I've recently launched a site (Mary's Tips on Designing Web Sites) that
>includes a lot of links to external Web sites:
> http://www.superconnect.com/marystips
>
>This is a frame site, and in each case where I invite the reader to go look
>at one of the example sites, I use the target tag:
> target="_top"
>This puts the external Web page on top of my Web site, and that's OK, but
>when readers click the "back" button to return to my Web site, they are
>returned to the default opening page rather than the page they were reading
>when they clicked the link! This means readers must again seek out the page
>they were reading to continue reading that page. And of course they may not
>even remember just where they were at the time they clicked the link.
>
>Is there some target code that would assure that the reader would be
>returned to the page they were viewing when they clicked the link?
>
>-------------------
>
>Of course, I could use some code (such as target=_blank) that would pop out
>the external Web page into a new browser window, and that would leave my
>site and the current page visible. One problem I've found with that
>strategy is that when the reader returns to my site for further perusal,
>the window for the external page they were just visiting drops behind the
>window containing my site.
>
>So then when the visitor clicks another link, the external page appears in
>the window BEHIND my site. Is this inevitable or is there a cure for this
>problem?
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Cordially, Mary McWilliams Johnson
> McJohnson Communications
> Documentation / Web Site Design, Development and Graphics
> http://www.superconnect.com
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