pdf display and frames?

H

Helpful person

I have a link to a pdf file which opens fine, as expected. However,
what I would really like is to be able to open a window containing
both my navigation menu and the text inside the pdf. I am using HTML
4.01 strict and wish to continue to do so.

Can this be done using strict? Should I use the "frameset" DOCTYPE,
and if so what are the ramifications, both for now and the future?

Thanks.

Richard Fisher
 
A

Andy Dingley

what I would really like is to be able to open a window containing
both my navigation menu and the text inside the pdf.  I am using HTML
4.01 strict and wish to continue to do so.

That's a frameset, so use the frameset doctype. Use Strict for the
individual nav frame(s) within this.

Can this be done using strict?  Should I use the "frameset" DOCTYPE,
and if so what are the ramifications, both for now and the future?

Frameset as a doctype will be around for as long as there are frames.
 
A

Ari Heino

Andy Dingley kirjoitti seuraavasti:
Frameset as a doctype will be around for as long as there are frames.

....and frames will be around for as long as there is the Frameset doctype?
 
D

dorayme

[QUOTE="Ed Mullen said:
I have a link to a pdf file which opens fine, as expected. However,
what I would really like is to be able to open a window containing
both my navigation menu and the text inside the pdf. I am using HTML
4.01 strict and wish to continue to do so.

Can this be done using strict? Should I use the "frameset" DOCTYPE,
and if so what are the ramifications, both for now and the future?

Can't be done on my system no matter what your DOCTYPE. My system opens
PDF files in Foxit Reader.[/QUOTE]

So, you can't enjoy quick and efficient peeks at pdf in your browser,
that is a bit of a shame... With a Mac, Ed, you can have a browser make
you a cup of coffee.
 
N

Neredbojias

Yeah, I get that. Many years ago, after a nice long tenure at Sony,
and known for being calm, considered and professional, I lost it
during a meeting, slammed my hand on the table and said something on
the order of: "Have you two lost your xxxxing minds?!!! This
product is crap, nobody's gonna buy it, the only issue we have to
deal with is when to crush all the inventory in the warehouse and how
big a loss to book! And you two are sitting here coming up with
cockamamie schemes to spend more money to sell something that no one
wants. Get a xxxxing grip!"

I left the company shortly thereafter. Very well compensated, I
might add. And it felt /really/ good to have become so annoying that
they paid me to go away. :)

And, dammit, I told them not to build the damned thing. Oh well.
Time marches on and history fades. Such is life.

Ya know, that's me, too. Not defending the right or wrong of it but
just saying it's _a_ way and the way I chose to choose. Inter-techy in
my "career", I worked for a major sports franchise whose team just
happened to make it to the highest of all their playoffs in my 2nd year
there. Well, they lost (fairly close margin), and I was tempted to
make a wisecrack but everybody looked so serious and
end-of-the-worldish that I didn't. A few days later I mentioned this
impulse to my dept's hama-hama saying, "I woulda but was afeerd they'd
fire me." He replied in all seriousness, "They would have." Anyway, I
lasted a bit over 3 years there then finally told this
jock-turned-event-manager-overnight dude to go f- himself and was
(-about 2 months later when the busy-busy was over) "requested" to take
my leave. ...And sure enough, within about a year I was making at
least twice as much (-though missed the glitter of the "big show"
somewhat, I do admit.) The new gig lasted 7+ years until crunch time
came again and the powers that be expected kiss-assing obeisance, etc.,
(which, of course, they didn't get.) I'll own-up to a couple-three
tough years after that, but now (and for the last 5 years or more)
things are peachy (-and I _don't_ mean to imply I've become an
itinerant worker...) The point is, right or wrong, I never could
suck-up to any boss's "wayward ideas" and I don't think you're the type
to, either.
 
H

Helpful person

I have a link to a pdf file which opens fine, as expected.  However,
what I would really like is to be able to open a window containing
both my navigation menu and the text inside the pdf.  I am using HTML
4.01 strict and wish to continue to do so.

Can this be done using strict?  Should I use the "frameset" DOCTYPE,
and if so what are the ramifications, both for now and the future?

Thanks.

Richard Fisher

Thanks everyone for your answers, even the off topic ones (they were
interesting). Looks like I need to learn about framesets.
 

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