Re: Communications Between Frame Panes in Netscape

• To: Shannon V Spires <svspire@somnet.sandia.gov>
• Subject: Re: Communications Between Frame Panes in Netscape
• From: "John C. Mallery" <jcma@ai.mit.edu>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:36:58 -0500
• Cc: www-cl@ai.mit.edu, svspire@somnet.sandia.gov (Shannon V Spires), ari@netscape.com
• In-Reply-To: <199611142320.QAA25840@somnet.sandia.gov>
• Sender: owner-www-cl@ai.mit.edu

At 4:20 PM -0700 1996-11-14, Shannon V Spires wrote:

>> Ari: Is there a recommended way to communicate (capture state)
>> across frame panes? Typically, people want to get form state from
>> the other panes and submit it.
>
>Grabbing state from a frame other than the one that contains the submitted
>item is pretty much prohibited by the transactional nature of HTTP.
>AFAIK, there's no way to make a form span multiple frames. If that's what
>you meant, then you'll indeed probably have to use some gnarly Java or
>JScript to do it. 

Precisely.

The easiest way to do this might be to abandon frames
>an emulate their behavior with a Java applet.
>
The Java Applet approach trips over the design brain damage where by
the applet requires pixel dimensions in advance, and therefore, does
not size properly for a given browser without forcing a reload to capture
the display dimensions (of course, one might capture these in advance.

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