标签导航-框架还是AJAX？

Question

I have what I imagine to be a pretty standard web-interface.

There are 4 different ListViews (grid controls) which are accessed by a series of Tabs on the top.

I have implemented this as follows:

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Tab 1 will load Page 1 containing Grid 1 into Frame 2, Tab 2 will load Page 2 containing Grid 2 into Frame 2 etc.

However this then means that if you click on an item in the Grid, and I load DetailsPage1.aspx into Frame 2, then Frame 1 and the tabs are still visible and active.

I've been advised that I should just have one Frame, and load the Pages in dynamically based on the tab click, using HttpRequest (or WebRequest in asp.net).

Is this the correct approach to take? If you have any resources or tips at hand, it would be appreciated!

Thanks

Answer 1

Frames are lame: you will get problems, if users want to set a bookmark and if users visit your site via google: Then your navigational frame is not visible. So you need a lot of dirty javascript. to check this. If you need javascript, do it right from the start and use AJAX