Newbie has a question (New idea or old?)

Charlie Fletcher (charlie@dr_sews.nrl.navy.mil)
Thu, 4 May 95 18:08:05 EDT

There are a couple of thing I would like to see added to the HTML standard
and before I go beating a drum I want to see if these have already been
discussed here (and if so, what are the correct terms by which I can find
info on them.) Please relpy directly to me since I am not yet a subscriber
to the group. Thanks in advance for the help. Here they are:

=18=031) HEADER (not HEAD) and FOOTER regions -- these are pieces of the
document that can be defined that are always shown on the browser
page. For example, many doc pages have NEXT, PREVIOUS, etc buttons
(or whatever) at the bottom of the page. If defined inside a footer
region, these would always be visiable to the user.

2) The idea of a "patch" -- that is, a piece of HTML that is evaluated
and patched into the current page (without reloading the entire page)
[Actually, what I seek are self-evaluating forms, but that's later].
Your new push-pull client/server implementations are close to this
but not what I seek (nor what I think are needed). What I would like
is similar to the client pull, but at the *request* of the client.
That is, a certain part of the current page is updated at the client's
request, without effecting (or reloading) the rest of the page.

Thanks,

Charlie
charlie@dr_sews.nrl.navy.mil
http://dr_sews.nrl.navy.mil/~charlie