Bookmarking Frames

[nivin]

I am currently administering a frames enabled site, however we have a very varied customer base which uses either netscape 3.0 and up or IE 3.0 and up.

What we would like to do is make bookmarking possible for this site.

One way to do this is to echo out what you want your content frames url to be in the overall url location.

So for example if you had the following site:

http://www.frames.com

you could bookmark it with certian page in the content frame by echoing out the following URL

http://www.frame.com?page=/yourserver/thepageyouwant.htm

This functionality can be easily accomplished with some javascript, for example

UpdateUrl(theURL)
{
parent.document.location=parent.document.location.pathname+"?page="+theURL;
}

You can also do this with window.location.href

Anyways... the problem is that by doing this it reloads the entire page everytime you click a link.. so while the problem of bookmarking in frames is solved. A large slowdown issue is now introduced. So what I need to know is is there a way to update this url string.. or somehow interupt the bookmarking process to give me this sort of functionality, without reloading the page everytime.

Thanks,

Nivin