Links which update an extarnal browser-window?

Hi.

I'm experimenting with a site layout which resembles and behaves like a Win32 application. To get the containerless formatting I need, I'm having to build this out of several extremely positioned windows.

My problem is that when a link/button is pressed on one window I have no way to communicate this to the other windows which need to be updated.

I could do this easily with targeted frames but only at the expense of my nice layout idea

Is there any way at all to dynamically signal from one window to another? Even a simple value?


The tools I have available to me are HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. The intended client is IE4+.

There are ways indeed

For the archives I went with a javascript template written by spk100.
http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex8/newwindow.htm

It allows you to name and reference any windows spawned by the script. I'm not sure if it's using the Expando properties or what but it works!

When your link target has a name that isn't a current frame, it'll automatically open/update a new window.