Framesets
Framesets are
not
the same file to the pages they frame. A frameset is simply an html page that (usually) has only information on how to layout other web pages. This doesn't bind the frameset to those other web pages in any way. The steps involved in displaying a page that uses frames are to 1) load the frameset, 2) parse the frameset, and 3) load each of the component parts of the frameset. Each component part of the frameset it its own individual web page independant of the other framesets. Two pages in two different frames have almost the same relationship as two pages in two seperate browser instances. Because of this WEST can only "follow" one frame in a frameset at a time without using the
savepage
and
loadpage
functions. Note that this is rarely a limitation since pages using frames usually have one active frame while the others are used for navigation or peripheral information display.