Re: Individual Frame URL (Was LibClient)

From: Genie Tyburski (tyburski@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG)
Date: Tue Mar 04 1997 - 08:30:31 PST


Judith M. Bird wrote:
>
<snip>
 It's happening with
> increasing frequency that I burrow down through a site on the main "frame"
> and get to a point that I want to bookmark. I gnash my teeth when I realize
> that my old "Add Bookmark" routine (I'm using Netscape 3.0) has only
> registered the URL of the home page, so that when I return to the bookmark
> later, I have to burrow down again -- sometimes forgetting how I found my
> way the first time to the page of interest. This has also happened to me
> when I've used the search engine on a site to find the information I'm
> looking for. What's the point in using a search engine to find what you
> want, if you have no way of referring back to it later?
>
> Has anybody found a way around this problem that I'm missing?
>
Yes, in Netscape at least, under the "View" menu, select "Frame Info."
This will provide a URL for the frame, which you can call up as a
separate document just by typing the URL in the "Open URL" dialog box.

Genie

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