Posted by dorayme on 09/02/06 02:40

In article <ErSdnRjv69NEeWXZnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@comcast.com>,
Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:

> OK, but it is right that I would then lose the advantage of the
> > domain url staying as is in the browser url text field, yes?
>
> Yeah. With domain Frame Redirect you don't get any final destination
> info so the user can't bookmark a page: all that appears and is saved
> is "mydomain.com" or some such, no matter what page the user lands on.
> With URL Redirects (like I use) the user "sees" the actual page on the
> real site and can bookmark it etc. The only strange thing about this is
> that when a user clicks on a link in (for instance) an email I send that
> says:
>
> http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz.html
>
> The actually land on:
>
> http://ed.mullen.home.comcast.net/Mozilla/moz.html
>
> A possible source of some confusion if people are paying attention to
> their location bars. On the other hand, if you opt for URL Frame
> Redirect, when they click on a link like:
>
> http://edmullen.net/mozilla/moz.html
>
> their location bar might simply say:
>
> http://mozilla.edmullen.net
>
> no matter what page they landed on. And their browser would not
> correctly bookmark the page.
>
> Hey, (huge sigh), life is not perfect.

Mate, I think the 40 buckeroos I shell out is worth it!

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dorayme

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