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

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-30 23:25:38

"Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:410B0839.1030106_at_redshift-software.com...
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

> > 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.

I've thought a bit more about this, and it occured to me that if the
tree is displayed in the same frame as the content, it's state will
not be preserved when a link is followed unless this info is added to
the url. So it appears this idea suffers from the same problems as
Reece's suggestion.

Jonathan