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Posted by Hans Dietmar Jaeger on 11/19/99 11:32
Spartanicus wrote:
> Unless you have a very good reason for it you should not use coding that
> causes a new viewport to open inside another document. It causes
> problems for you the author since what is rendered inside that new
> viewport is completely independent from the document in which it is
> embedded. For example clicking links inside such a new viewport normally
> causes them to open inside that viewport, not in the main viewport.
> Anything rendered inside the new viewport needs to be styled separately
> etc.
Ok, I understood!
While implementing one workaround[*] after the other for the drawbacks
mentioned above I have to think in a new way to redesign my homepage.
Thank you for discussing the advantages/drawbacks of opening a new viewport!
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[*] E.g. I have to resize the viewport every time the content changes
(after clicking in it); and that makes the code much more complex than
using any other solution!
> What you are including measures a few hundred bytes.
No, it is 36 Kb, transfered every time.
Thank you anyway,
jagger
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