> Oy, from the fact that users find web page links useful, it does not
follow
> that all identified content ought to be so linked.
>It suggests that not linking is a serious drawback.
It suggests no such thing. Your "suggestion", applied to surgery, would
be that /primum non nocere/ implies surgery should never remove hurt or
remove useful tissue. The inference is overinclusive, to put it mildly.
W3C's job is to enable, not function like a commissariat.
> A design goal of this use case is to isolate individual framed items from
> URL back/forward/history.external linking. Analagous to watching a
picture
> show where selecting N pictures does not commit you to hitting the Back
> button N times to get back out.
>Why shouldn't it?
Because the use case demands otherwise.
> It's how all other links work. Behavior should be consistent.
/These are not external links./ You want these pages to make each item
externally linkable. /The client does not/. The client wins this debate
hands down.
> More significantly, each item may have its own permission setting.
>Why are frames useful for that? You can just display a permissions
>error if the user is unauthorized.
The use case specifies otherwise.
> This use case needs to isolate items within the page from
> back/forward/history and external links.
>Why? That seems to detract from the utility here, not add to it.
Already explained. So that a user may enter and exit the frameset as one
page
PB
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Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Peter Brawley <[email protected]>
wrote:
Oy, from the fact that users find web page links useful, it does not
follow
that all identified content ought to be so linked.
It suggests that not linking is a serious drawback.
A design goal of this use case is to isolate individual framed items from
URL back/forward/history.external linking. Analagous to watching a
picture
show where selecting N pictures does not commit you to hitting the Back
button N times to get back out.
Why shouldn't it? It's how all other links work. Behavior should be
consistent.
More significantly, each item may have its
own permission setting.
Why are frames useful for that? You can just display a permissions
error if the user is unauthorized.
This use case needs to isolate items within the page from
back/forward/history and external links.
Why? That seems to detract from the utility here, not add to it.
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