Posted by LetMeDoIt on 10/25/07 13:52

On Oct 25, 5:45 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> On 23 Oct, 18:49, LetMeDoIt <powercode...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > The problem I'm having is I that when I enter a search string, I not
> > sure how the button frame communicates with the details frame.
>
> Trivial JavaScript, that access other frames through the DOM. You
> might find examples of this by web searching, but most web JS code
> libraries are abysmally poor quality. A posting to
> comp.lang.javascript might give you some better practice.
>
> On the whole though, throw away your frames and start again. If you're
> not using JS, then frames have some advantages to offer (and a whole
> load of disadvantages). Once you've accepted the use of JS though, you
> can do a whole pile of different techniques that aren't based around
> frames and let you avoid their problems. Some of these would use AJAX
> (retrieving your datasets by XML or maybe JSON) others might use an
> <iframe> rather than frames, and would allow you to use pretty much
> the same HTML-serving web service endpoints you're already using. The
> <iframe> solution is probably your best overall - given your current
> starting point. <iframe>s are _not_ the same as frames, they don't
> have the same disadvanatges as frames and by the use of JS as you
> describe here, you can work around most of the disadvantages that they
> do share with frames.
>
> In particular, make sure that your finished solution is RESTful (look
> it up on wikipedia). The practical requirement here would be that
> there were stable URLs to the overall page that retrieved the same
> data query each time, not just a single URL and a need for manual
> tweaking of search boxes.
>
> Flash is entirely inappropriate here. Poor old Travis, it's all he
> knows.

thank you for your input (to you also Travis), how about if I remove
the OnClick call and replace it with the asp or html equivalent?...
I'll do anything in order to avoid rewriting this whole thing (the
rest of the code works well and reeeeeaaaaaally do not want to
rewrite...)

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