Thanks for the feedback. Yes it sounds like frames, but having always heard negative comments such as yours, I'm wary, and as a user was not that fond of them either. Maybe its just that they were often being used for the wrong purposes (like to set up a sidebar)?
<br>Also since an increasing number of users will be in Africa with often older systems, I'm concerned about usability. Of course one can have noframes option, but if there were sth better than frames (with options) then that would be if interest.
<br><br>The main thing is to facilitate simultaneous views of two pages from the wiki for comparison, navigation and editing. It would be nice if one could move the bar of a frame separating 2 frames to get a larger view of one frame at the expense of another.
<br><br>Originally I was thinking of one sidebar and 2 page windows (or frames) but it might be easiest to just have 2 views of the wiki in which one can navigate on the top or on the bottom view (kind of a 2-piece wiki or something)
<br><br>As a simple hack, maybe I could look into providing a "frames" option which opens 2 instances of PmWiki in 2 frames. But I've never set up frames. In looking at <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html">
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html</a> I also note mention of embeddding HTML objects - somewhere in here there's an answer maybe.<br><br>Thanks for the feedback - I'll return with questions if need be.<br><br>
Don<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eclectic Tech, LLC Info</b>
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<br></span> </div><br><div><div><span><div>On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm interested in offering users the possibility of viewing 2 wikiscreens in parallel (with only one sidebar).The purpose would be to facilitate and encourage comparisons. Basically there are two sets of profiles organized differently - one by language and the other by country - but with some common and overlapping info.
<br><br>A user can always open two browsers - or download something like <a href="http://www.daisy2000.com/MultipleBrowser/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.daisy2000.com/MultipleBrowser/
</a> - but I want to make it easier to encourage more interaction with and contributions to an increasingly complicated and interrelated collection of pages. <br><br>This could get tricky when it comes to editing, and perhaps other aspects, but I think it might be a useful feature (at least over here).
<br><br>If it's even feasible, probably it's too late to add to 2.2.0<br><br> Thanks in advance for any feedback.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span></div>Why wouldn't you be able to do this now?<br></div><div><br>
</div><div>If you have distinctly separate forms there's no data conflict, and maybe (gasp!) use frames? After all this is something that frames are perfect for -- though I've never used them myself and as a designer I abhor them -- make it optional! I love css tableless design, but have to make concessions for tables at times. This sounds like something frames already do. What functionality are you missing from the core distro that would be required to do this?
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