Second Window
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Dear Confused What a coincidence that you should ask. The Window Spawning and Remotes technique was described in a Doc Javascript article at Webreference.com just last week. Aunt Netty learned of this second window javascript technique some time ago, and tried on more than one occasion to apply it, but opted each time to design the page some other way, without a second window. Another design approach is to use frames, in which the selection list is in a "navigation" frame, and the content is in a "main" frame. Aunt Netty cautions that you need to be fairly good at writing HTML and Javascript in order properly to create a page that uses frames or launches a remote window.
Aunt Netty feels that a better design strategy is to use a series of pages
that are "identical" in navigational structure.
Each page has its own content, and yet all pages have
a consistent means of selecting something else.
An example of this strategy is the
set of buttons in the top right corner
of all of Aunt Netty's tips.
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