This is driving me nuts - I'm beginning to wonder whether it's even possible.
Given <a target="view">...</a> (or <form target="view" or whatever) if the "view" window doesn't already exist, a browser will typically pop it up. And presumably internally name it "view". http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/present/frames.html#adef-target What I'd like to do now is some facility for getting the browser to name a window either using HTML or, worse, HTTP. So suppose a page loads I name it "view" then other pages can target it. I've even tried the obscure(?) Netscape-ism, $r->header_out('window-target', 'view'); with no joy. I think this is more to tell where the browser to display the window however. http://www.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/target.html You'd think this would be as simple as something like <html name="view" ... but oooh no. Using a frameset is not an option, despite it being a workable solution :-) Cheers, Paul PS Here's the actual scenario. User logs in and see a list of things. This is what I'd like to be the "list" window, with a collection of links to things to view, wrapped in <a target="view"...>. This will pop up a "view" window. Now, in the view window there is a <form target="list"...> which I'd like to have submit back to the original "list" window - so you can see the workflow bounces between the two (the user can deal with alt-tab'ing for now). The hard bit is, without popping up a window, getting the browser to think the original "list" window is named list. Right now, it doesn't and pops a third window (whereupon the bouncing back and forth does now work, but ignoring the original window). ?? -> View <-> List PPS Yes, I'm trying to avoid JavaScript for now. -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "If my brain fell out, then it will follow you home." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
