Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/05/33 11:17

Previously in alt.html, MK <mukesh11@hotmail.com> said:

> Many times while visiting a website we find some link which takes the user
> to a different website but it is in the same browser window.

Um, yes. This is the way the web generally works.

> While the user
> is reviewing the new webpage we may wish to come back to the old website.

That's what the Back button in your browser is for.

> On
> Internet many sites do this by providing a link to the old website on the
> top part of the browser window. To do this, they split the browser window in
> two parts. An example can be seen in the attached image file. Could some one
> let me know the method of doing this in HTML or JavaScript?

Frames, but don't. Besides all the normal reasons not to use frames,
this situation adds another: by putting another site within a frame on
your site, you are breaching their copyright, because it looks like you
are trying to pass their content off as your own.

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Mark Parnell
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