alt Hacker NewsThis is exactly what I wrote? But let me rephrase it: frames are not enough solely for an SPA, they can't keep state, you need javascript/dynamic webserver for that.
> Ok, fine, I'll link you directly to the ArrayList docs, for which I had to "view frame source" and grab the URL:
You could've just right click on the "frames" link, and copy the URL: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/ut... . They use javascript to navigate based on the search params in the URL. It's not great, it should update the URL as you navigate, maybe you can send them a PR for that. (And to change state of the boxes on the left too.)
Also browser history handling is really messy and hard to get right, regardless of frames.
> And if I look in my history, there is no entry that corresponds to what I actually saw.
? If you write a javascript +1 button that updates a counter, there won't be a corresponding entry in your history for the actual states of your counter. I don't see how that is a fundamental problem with javascript(?).
It's cool that they have that link. Most frame sites didn't. JS actually isn't necessary to make that work, they could have just interpolated the requested page server-side. But it only correctly points to one frame. It's the most important frame, to be fair, but it doesn't do anything for the other two frames.
I don't understand how pre-HTML5, non-AJAX reference docs qualify as an "SPA". This is just an ordinary web site.