I have a client that is demanding the following in an intranet web application:
A list of documents on the left side of the screen, that is independently scrollable
A document (can be any format, they will have the necessary plug-ins installed) that is select and displayed on the right
The list and the document must have a sliding bar between them to allow the user to adjust which they would like to see more of (list vs. document)
Because of these requirements the only solution I can think of is a frameset. This is because using a purely DHTML sliding bar will not work when the user attempts to move the bar towards the loaded document as the plug-in then takes control of the mouse and there is no guaranteed method of getting any response form the plug-in to determine where the sliding bar should move to. By using a frameset I can take advantage of the browsers overruling power on the plug-ins and get the desired results.
Now comes my problem, the client has informed me that I must make this web application cross-browser (IE and Firefox). Everything is good in Firefox, but in IE the frameset has a 3d indented border going all around the document list and document (which the client is saying users will be confused by, how, I don't know). I can remove this border by setting the frameBorder property to 0 but then the sliding bar between the list and document is not present, which completely defeats the purpose. I have tried to use CSS to fix this problem, but nothing I have tried seems to work.
Has anyone encountered this type of problem before and if so, how did you get around it?
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I have a client that is demanding the following in an intranet web application:
Because of these requirements the only solution I can think of is a frameset. This is because using a purely DHTML sliding bar will not work when the user attempts to move the bar towards the loaded document as the plug-in then takes control of the mouse and there is no guaranteed method of getting any response form the plug-in to determine where the sliding bar should move to. By using a frameset I can take advantage of the browsers overruling power on the plug-ins and get the desired results.
Now comes my problem, the client has informed me that I must make this web application cross-browser (IE and Firefox). Everything is good in Firefox, but in IE the frameset has a 3d indented border going all around the document list and document (which the client is saying users will be confused by, how, I don't know). I can remove this border by setting the frameBorder property to 0 but then the sliding bar between the list and document is not present, which completely defeats the purpose. I have tried to use CSS to fix this problem, but nothing I have tried seems to work.
Has anyone encountered this type of problem before and if so, how did you get around it?
Your assistance is appreciated.
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