Re: [boost] Re: Javascript Tree Control [was: Serialization Menu]

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-30 21:47:21

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

> "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:ud62do956.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...

>>Ideally of course there would be no need for this link and we'd
>>always see a linkable address in the browser's address field.
> 
> Reece Dunne asked this question, and I was going to paste my reply
> here but I see it's not quite correct. The way to do this would be to
> replace each link of the form
> 
>     <a href='reference/copy.html'>copy</a>
> 
> with one like:
> 
>     <a target='_top' href='reference/copy.html?path=1.7.2'>copy</a>
> 
> Obviously, this makes it very difficult to write and maintain
> documentation unless it is automated. A problem that remains even if
> the docs are automatically generated is that links within a page cause
> the browser to reload instead of just scroll.
> 
> I'd love synchronization to be automatic but I just don't see how to
> do it.

It's possible but only if you invert the relation between the frames and 
the documents. If instead of making a frameset with the tree and the 
document you could instead make the document inline the tree frame 
inside the document page and hence the URL would always be direct (using 
iframe tag). This might be contrary to one of the intrusion principles, 
but it would solve the problem.

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