On 30 Apr 2009 Roger Darlington wrote:
On 29 Apr 2009, Richard Porter wrote:
Netsurf's behaviour is a little bit inconsistent or at least
inconvenient with framesets. For example go to
http://www.bestmoments.at/catago/BestMoments/FE/Index/index
and click on ZU DEN BILDERN. The main frame changes but the back
icon is not enabled. However the menu allows you to select Navigate
Back one page. Having gone back to the first page the reverse applies
and you can go forward one page using the menu but not the toolbar
icon.
You need to click Menu in the main frame, so I can see what's
happening but it's not particularly helpful. It would be better if the
forward and back icons let you step through the 'pages' actually seen
regardless of their structure. I think most browsers do this.
By experimentation with one of my framed sites (no comments on my
implementation of these sites please!) the way Netsurf has implemented
forward/back via menu allows you to click 'menu' over the frame-pane
that you wish to go backwards/forwards on. So, you could click on any
frame-pane.
Yes but unless you click on the frame that was last updated you won't
get the desired result.
Unfortunately, it doesn't update the menu pane when you
click using 'right-click' - you have to click menu again to enable
further navigation of the same frame-pane.
Do you mean clicking on the right arrow? It only works if you go back
from the frameset to an earlier page, from where you can only return
to the initial state of the frameset.
However, Netsurf developers could implement this way of working and
still use the navigate buttons, which is what they are there for after
all: Click on the frame-pane you wish to navigate, then click on the
appropriate Navigate button.
That would be a possibility. Following a link in a frameset can only
update one frame, so it should be fairly easy to track in the history.
The browser needs to record the target frame, but it must already hold
the information for each frame so that shouldn't be too difficult.
The tricky bit is when you leave the frameset for another page and
then try to go back to it in the same state that you left it in. You'd
need to go back and find what object was last loaded into each frame
(and framesets can be nested).
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