"Rene Rivera" <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote in message news:410B0839.1030106@redshift-software.com...
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
I'd love synchronization to be automatic but I just don't see how to do it.
It's possible but only if you invert the relation between the frames and the documents. If instead of making a frameset with the tree and the document you could instead make the document inline the tree frame inside the document page and hence the URL would always be direct (using iframe tag). This might be contrary to one of the intrusion principles, but it would solve the problem.
I've thought a bit more about this, and it occured to me that if the tree is displayed in the same frame as the content, it's state will not be preserved when a link is followed unless this info is added to the url. So it appears this idea suffers from the same problems as Reece's suggestion. Jonathan