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You, sir or ma'am, are a gentleman and a scholar. I literally just created this account to thank you. PS if you know how to make a link target a frame in a ne

You, sir or ma'am, are a gentleman and a scholar. I literally just created this account to thank you. PS if you know how to make a link target a frame in a nested frameset, please let me know. It must go deeper.

Intermernet 12y ago
I haven't dealt with framesets for almost 20 years (I'm still scarred), but I seem to recall that you can target nested frames just by providing them with a unique "name" attribute. I may be wrong though. You may also want to change the doctype header to use the HTML 4 "frameset.dtd" instead of the "strict.dtd". Just change the first line of your frame-enabled pages to: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> Or, for extra 90's authenticity, you could use the HTML v3.2 doctype: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
- archedeyebrow 12y ago
  But what I'm after is recursion. Rather than make 20 individual frameset pages each with different target="name"s, it would be way cooler simply to populate each frame area with itself. Pedantic props for the doctype tip. EDIT: In theory this should work, but browsers are uncooperative: http://tilde.club/~arch/frames-odd.html http://tilde.club/~arch/frames-odd.html
  - Intermernet 12y ago
    According to http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331 : "Infinite recursion is prevented. Any frame that attempts to assign as its SRC a URL used by any of its ancestors is treated as if it has no SRC URL at all (basically a blank frame). This doesn't prevent all malicious documents, but it eliminates a troublesome class of them." Ah well, probably for the best really... It seems to have a recursion limit of 10 on Firefox, and 12 on Chrome. I cheated by creating your original frameset pattern and then just recursing index.html in the middle frame. It improves the recursion effect a bit, but still isn't infinite. http://downloads.intermer.net/frames/ http://downloads.intermer.net/frames/
mikeleeorg 12y ago
Wow, another NYU grad! Rock on. Too bad they didn't keep an archive of my first website way back in 1995.

Intermernet 12y ago

I haven't dealt with framesets for almost 20 years (I'm still scarred), but I seem to recall that you can target nested frames just by providing them with a unique "name" attribute. I may be wrong though. You may also want to change the doctype header to use the HTML 4 "frameset.dtd" instead of the "strict.dtd". Just change the first line of your frame-enabled pages to: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> Or, for extra 90's authenticity, you could use the HTML v3.2 doctype: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

archedeyebrow 12y ago
But what I'm after is recursion. Rather than make 20 individual frameset pages each with different target="name"s, it would be way cooler simply to populate each frame area with itself. Pedantic props for the doctype tip. EDIT: In theory this should work, but browsers are uncooperative: http://tilde.club/~arch/frames-odd.html http://tilde.club/~arch/frames-odd.html
- Intermernet 12y ago
  According to http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331 : "Infinite recursion is prevented. Any frame that attempts to assign as its SRC a URL used by any of its ancestors is treated as if it has no SRC URL at all (basically a blank frame). This doesn't prevent all malicious documents, but it eliminates a troublesome class of them." Ah well, probably for the best really... It seems to have a recursion limit of 10 on Firefox, and 12 on Chrome. I cheated by creating your original frameset pattern and then just recursing index.html in the middle frame. It improves the recursion effect a bit, but still isn't infinite. http://downloads.intermer.net/frames/ http://downloads.intermer.net/frames/

mikeleeorg 12y ago

Wow, another NYU grad! Rock on. Too bad they didn't keep an archive of my first website way back in 1995.