On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Peter Brawley <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree wholeheartedly, esp. when the topic list is long (thousands or > millions of items) and itself editable, and the required interface is for > flexible, independent scrolling of freely choosable bits of the topic tree > in the left frame without affecting anything in the right detail frame. As > Andrew said, frames are the only good way to do this.
How is this better for you than making the sidebar position: fixed (and maybe even in an iframe if you specifically want that)? I can think of a few ways, e.g., if it's essential that the state of each frame remain unchanged when you navigate the other frame. What's a concrete example where this is necessary, though? Maybe there are other ways to approach the problem that don't completely break bookmarking/URL copying/the browser back button/etc.
