AmigaActive (1297/2347)

From:Neil Bothwick
Date:16 Mar 2001 at 23:09:00
Subject:Re: <FRAMESET>s again

Matt Sealey said,

>> The Scala-substitute would need a special browser that filled the
>> display with the page, with no strip of Back/Home/Refresh etc at the
>> top. That would make a useful Amiga product, if there were BoXeRs or
>> similar to run it on.

> A "special browser"? Doesn't AWeb do that kind of thing for the Amigactive
> front-end? Granted, no frames, but the principle is the same.

No frames? They were there when I burned the CD. Who's nicked them? :-O

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Amiga Active CD 19</title>
<meta name="generator" content="hsc">
<meta name="author" content="Neil Bothwick">
</head>
<frameset rows="140,*" frameborder=0 framespacing=0>
<frameset cols="480,*" framespacing=0 frameborder=0>
<frame name="topmenu" src="html/Menus/Top.html" scrolling="no" noresize marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<frame name="miscmenu" src="html/Menus/Misc.html" scrolling="no" noresize marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
</frameset>
<frameset cols="158,*" framespacing=0 frameborder=0>
<frame name="sidebar" src="html/Menus/Home.html" scrolling="no" noresize marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<frame name="main" src="html/Trees/Home.html" scrolling="auto" noresize marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="blue">
<h3 align="center">Please double-click the Welcome icon to view the CD content.</h3>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

That looks rather framey to me...

> Once there's less urgent bugs to deal with I plan on asking Olli to make
> a "fullscreen" mode available, at least so we can mimic IE's action and
> have the bars flit to the top and remove window borders, and at most
> so we can be rid of window borders altogether (javascript and hotkey
> control of the browser functions should suffice here to replace real
> buttons)

> Maybe then we can hijack Amigactive's CDs? :P

I've already told you what's needed. The main thing is a decent ARexx
command set. I'd love to be able to offer a choice, but AWeb is the only
Amiga browser written without the assumption that HTML == WWW.

Neil



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