Beginner Frames Question

Newbie Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:09:16 -0800

I'm sorry to ask a total newbie question, but I honestly did look through http://www.mozilla.org/editor/ first and looked for prior posts but still couldn't get clear on this.

I'm trying to set up a frameset where a book I'm reading is in the left frame and my personal notes about each chapter are in a right frame.

I can get the frameset to display in composer, but I can't seem to edit the content of any frame. I've attached the frameset and content pages I'm using.

I did find some quite old posts discussing problems with editing frames, but they were from 2000 so I wasn't sure they still applied. (My Help/About page says: Mozilla 1.3a Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212) Do I have the right build?

I love Mozilla (and Composer) so I'd really like to find a way to solve this without using a commercial html editor package. To my great dismay I've found that FrontPage 2000 seems to almost handle this the best of the editors I've tested. (You have to ctrl-click on links when navigating the pages but editing the frame content does work). But I don't want to part of the problem (funding Micro$oft) when I can be part of the solution (using/supporting open source).

Other freeware packages (1st Page 2000, Arachnophilia, Amaya) can't seem to handle this either.) Amaya doesn't even DISPLAY frames much less edit them, and the others all seem to have frame-capable preview, but not frame WYSIWYG editing.

If there is any way I can be useful in solving this, I'd like to know. I'm not that much of a programmer, but perhaps a Starbucks gift card mailed in the direction of the right coder could help? <grin>

Thanks for any advice you can offer! Keep up the good work!

<frameset cols="10%,60%,30%">
  <frame src="menu.htm"  name="FrameMenu">
  <frame src="book.htm"  name="FrameBook">
  <frame SRC="note.htm"  NAME="FrameNote">
</frameset>

Title: My Textbook

Text Title

by Joe Author

Chapter 1

111111 111 1111111 111 111111111111 111111 11111

This is a paragraph. Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah... Blah blah blah...

Chapter 2

22 2 2 2 2222 22 222222222 222 2 2 2 2222222

Chapter 3

33333 333333 33333 33333 33333 3333333333 3333333333 3333333333 33333 33333 33333 33333 33333

00 00
01 01
02 02
03 03

Title: My Personal Notes

Chapter one is stupid. What kind of professor would assign such an idiotic book?!!

Someone shoot me! This author is an idiot!

That's it! I'm going to change my major! I've had it with this lunacy!