[whatwg] Anchor target-attribute extension to enable dom targeting

[Kornel Lesinski]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:17:55 +0100, Georges MARZIN  
<gmarzin at club-internet.fr> wrote:

>      <a href="inc/foo.frg" target="#main_area">
>          Click here to dynamicaly load a text/html piece of code into
> the "main_area" identified dom node
>      </a>
>
>      <!-- somewhere in the same document -->
>      <div id="main_area"></div>
>
> The content of inc/foo.frg in not a complete html page but only a well
> formed xhtml piece of code like :
>
>     <div>
>        this content is dynamically loaded into a dom node, like ajax,
>        but with a html extended syntax of the target property.
>     </div>

IMHO it isn't much better than:

<a href="inc/foo.frg" target="main_area">
<iframe name="main_area"></iframe>

It's still as evil as frames - subpages can't be used as standalone  
documents (thus bookmarked, returned by search engines, etc), because they  
lack proper navigation menus and in your example they're not even proper  
documents.

I think that much better and more powerful solution are ID overlays. The  
idea is to merge documents instead of completly including one into  
another. XUL has something like that:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_Tutorial:Overlays

-- 
regards, Kornel Lesiński