Developers! If you going to implement this design, how would you make the right pane load content independently of the left? And be able to to _target each pane from the other? (Like we used to do with frames.) - ThreadSky

allthatmalarkey.bsky.social • 24 days ago

Developers! If you going to implement this design, how would you make the right pane load content independently of the left? And be able to to _target each pane from the other? (Like we used to do with frames.)

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sil.kryogenix.org•23 days ago

this question is upsetting. I can think of five ways and I don't like any of them.
1. (it still works!) Has all the problems that frameset always had -- pages don't work right if they're not loaded within the frameset, unpleasant mobile experience, etc, etc
2. two iframes, a pane in each:

sil.kryogenix.org•23 days ago

...this is basically faking a frameset with iframe and has all the same problems while trying to get points for not using the deprecated old-fashioned frameset element and using the modern iframe element instead, and is terrible
3. one page per right-hand pane option, with