[l2h] Re: latex2html: Frames implemented for HTML 4.0
Ross MOORE
Ross MOORE <ross@mpce.mq.edu.au>
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:04:22 +1000 (EST)
> JT> I love the frames. Too bad they're so slow to display...
>
>They take a full 12 seconds to display on my pathetic R4400 SGI at
>work using Netscape 4.08 or 4.51.
Yeah, but I can't do much about that.
The problem is that each new page means that as many as 7 HTML files
have to be read !!
...otherwise the Next/Up/Prev navigation will not work properly,
and internal hyperlinked cross-references may break,
or cause new browser windows to be generated.
If the traditional navigation panel is required, but in a separate
frame, the all of
1. navigation
2. main body
3. footnotes
must be loaded within an enclosing frame.
Since all 3 files change with a new page,
the frameset itself must be unique to the page;
it is not enough to try to use an already-loaded frameset.
Then each extra view; e.g. using 'Contents' and/or 'Index'
as extra navigation frames,
requires a new frameset, plus requiring another frameset
to be able to switch back to the 'standard' view.
This is the only way that I could find to allow all the expected
behaviours of a LaTeX2HTML document, plus
A. the attractiveness of frames;
B. the usefulness of alternative frameset views.
If anyone can devise a simpler scheme, then I'd love to hear
about it.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore