Button to bookmark multiframe page

can it be done?

[david752]

I need a button to bookmark the current page, which contains six frames. (I use frames because on a 56k dialup line it makes a big speedup to reload just the rectangle containing content that changes.)

I already have a feature on my main (frameset) page that restores the page. For example, the URI "main.php?menu=home&sub=news" will restore the page so it shows exactly what would be shown if the user had selected menu item "home" and "home" subitem "news". (The navigation menu is in one of the frames.)

The button could, of course, just do "location.href = 'main.php?menu=home&sub=news';", but this would simply cause a complete page reload. I want the button to add the bookmark to the browser with no page reload.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
David

[tedster]

I'd love to have a solution to this one, too. I have a client with .jsp pages, but the same issue.

Outside of maintaining a whole pile of frameset documents, a reload-type solution is all we can come up with.

[david752]

I am sad that there is apparently no solution to this problem, because it seems to make frames useless for user-friendly sites.

:(

David

[rewboss]

Frames seldom are user-friendly.