Re: TN problem partially solved?

On 5/19/97, Michael Lean <m.lean[_at_]qut.edu.au> wrote:
>
> On a visit to the TotalNews site, I observed that, when following the
> link to the NY Times, TotalNews' frames disappeared after a few
> seconds, leaving the NY Times page frameless and er, naked, so to
> speak. I am reliably informed, although I don't understand how they
> did it, that this effect is accomplished using Java. None of the
> other sites I checked seem to have cottoned on yet. Interesting. What
> sort of a situation do we have now?

  What we probably have, in effect, is that the NYT has 'withdrawn' TN's 'implied license' to frame their site -- but it has done so not by putting an 'express withdrawal' in text form on their page (ineffective and inefficient) but by doing so using a more powerful available language for embedding their communication with other sites (i.e., Java). [Actually, I don't think this is Java-based; I think there's an HTTP header that disables framing, but I could be very wrong]. Makes a lot of sense --

David Post
<postd[_at_]erols.com> Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 13:39:36 GMT