On 22 Jan 99, Mary McWilliams Johnson wrote:
> 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?
The short answer: no.
Or perhaps the more technically correct reply is that your users *do*
return to the "page they were viewing" when they hit the Back button --
because a framed site such as yours has only a single URL, and that
corresponds to the overall frameset that displays the subsidiary pages.
Those pages themselves have no URLs, so it's not possible to go "Back" to
them -- because as far as the browser (and HTTP/HTML) is concerned,
you never went to them in the first place.
Therein is the fatal flaw in Netscape's half-assed implementation of framed
content: it utterly disregarded the entire -- and fundamental -- model of
the Web as a non-hierarchical matrix of equally significant "objects".
When some objects are "less equal" than others, then the entire
navigation and bookmarking structure collapses. It becomes unpredictable
and unreliable. Which is a good reason to avoid frames unless there is
some utterly compelling reason to use them. Which there very rarely is.
IMO.
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Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
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