A bit of advice

[Tony]

Hi All,

I want to create a webpage - probably local to a machine - that is capable of the following.

Has thumbnails at the bottom when clicked open the webpage into a designated larger pane.

you can navigate through the website that is in the larger pane, and change it by clicking on another thumbnail to bring a different website up.

Then if you click back on the original thumbnail it brings up the original website at the place where you left it rather than going to it's homepage.

I have (hopefully)attached a rough idea of what I want to do in case my explanation is crap, but would like to know if this is possible, and what would I use to create it - the idea is that you will be looking at a 50" plasma for this at HD res, so should be enough to make it viable in terms of viewing.

TIA

[samhs]

50" Plasma will still only likely have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 - so it wont be super-high res.

The easiest solution would be to use an iFrame, with a bit of JavaScript (or even just a link with a target attribute set) on the bottom row. Alternatively, you could use JavaScript to make an AJAX request for each page, but that would get a little more complex.

[Tony]

50" Plasma will still only likely have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 - so it wont be super-high res.

The easiest solution would be to use an iFrame, with a bit of JavaScript (or even just a link with a target attribute set) on the bottom row. Alternatively, you could use JavaScript to make an AJAX request for each page, but that would get a little more complex.

Yeah, I know it won't be super hi res, however the websites that I want to launch in it are maximum of around 900px across and the user will be stood next to the screen so it should be big enough for them to read and use. I know I could use an iframe, however it's the maintain state bit that I need to think about the logic on.

Was wondering if CSS would do it with layers show/hide etc. or is that sort of stuff not used anymore?

[samhs]

Yeah - absolutely you could. Have 5 divs, each with an iframe. On click of a thumb, show the appropriate div, hide the others.

[Tony]

the iframe seems to not keep me logged in to the site I'm loading in it, I log in, I click a link and it tells me I'm logged out.

Any clues? Haven't done this developer thing for sooo many years

[familychoice]

Maybe you could customise a jquery slider/gallery thing, such as something on here: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/jquery-image-galleries-sliders-best-of/

Some of the sliders allow HTML content as well as larger versions of images.

Might be a quick fix.