TRINPSITE PAGEVIEWS
From Finger File to Iframe Hierarchy

 
[TRINPsite image from the 0th to the 5th iframe level]

screenshot of a TRINPsite pageview with six iframe levels,
starting from the Sound Files document

in full view this is a quarter of the original image of 4112 by 5465 pixels
 

The hierarchy of iframes

What is shown in a TRINPsite pageview on the internet nowadays depends in general terms on: 1, the width, height and resolution of the device (desktop computer, laptop, mobile phone and so on); 2, the width and height of the window or 'viewport' activated; and 3, the user's wish to see the whole page or only the main part, the 'heart', of it. For the full version a width of at least 600 pixels is required, for the heart version something like 320 pixels may suffice. However, once a window reaches a width of, say, 1024 pixels, it becomes possible to show two TRINPsite pages side by side, the one displaying everything the page code allows for, the other simply displaying what is unique for the page loaded and hardly more than that. They can even be arranged in two columns: the full page on the left which does not need any horizontal scrolling and one or more pages on the right, which may need horizontal scrolling in the full version, but no such scrolling in the heart version. At TRINPsite these pages are ordered in a hierarchy of iframes (internal frames) in such a way that the page of which the URL is that of the total pageview is put on the left, in the first column on the 0 level of the hierarchy, simply because it is the first page and not in any iframe itself. It is in the second column where the main page generates one or more pages on the first level of iframes. Yet, this is only the beginning of a theoretically never-ending process, so long as there is still space (and time, of course). For each page in an iframe in the second column will in turn generate one or more pages (sometimes none) in iframes in the third column; each one in the third column one or more (sometimes none) in the fourth; and so on. In the above image you see a screenshot of the result of this process after going from iframe level 0 with no iframe to iframe level 5, altogether six levels in the hierarchy of iframes.

A special pageview demands creative input

TRINPsite does not automatically offer you pageviews like the display above: what it offers you is the opportunity for creating such a pageview quite easily. However, should you, too, start from the Sound Files document, you may not get to see any iframe with another page in it; you may not even get to see the whole Sound Files page. If your (mobile) device is too narrow, you will, by default, merely be presented with the heart version of the document, and this reduced version will never create an iframe. Therefore, first of all, you need a width which is large enough to accommodate a whole page, and then a width which is large enough to accommodate that first whole page with one or more iframes below one another on the right of it. Strictly speaking, it is not that you need the physical width, because in principle you can choose 'any' virtual width you like, but if your virtual width exceeds your physical one you may have to do a lot of horizontal scrolling. (Under DISPLAY OPTIONS, or DO, every standard page lets you change the 'surfing width' to a value between 600 and 9,999 pixels.) Even if your window is wide enough for two columns, you may see four iframes with four other TRINPsite documents (with or without vertical scrolling), but not the four which are shown in the display above. Because what you are being shown normally are standard single pages or pages randomly selected from particular sets. Nonetheless, from these pages you can surf to any other TRINPsite page, if only by clicking on the index page links. Hence, it is up to you which page you choose and leave in each iframe. If space allows, the particular page you select for a particular iframe will, as a rule, come with its own new iframes on the right. And if a page in such a new iframe is not to your liking, you can, again, surf away from it. In theory, this can be repeated ad infinitum; in practice, the total number of HTML pages available (634 at this moment) is the limit, unless you allow them to be shown more than once.

Some more points, historical and practical

The present site is not a new website wholly designed with today's features, fashions and photos in mind. Most people intent on developing such a website are likely to opt for (or resort to) a safe ready-made design package with cut-and-dried up-to-date coding solutions. As a matter of fact, TRINPsite is an about thirty-three-year-old internet site which started off with simple nongraphic text files, and gradually developed further without the straitjacket of an unfounded or skewedly founded conventionality. You can follow all its developments between the years 50 and 71 aSWW by going to the special Additions and Revisions document, which provides access to these 22 years. (There is no such documentation for the even earlier years 48 and 49 aSWW.) These 'historical' year files do not only list all the new text documents and audio files which were introduced in the course of time; they also describe what new formats were used for the standard textual pages. From the year 66 this format has been the so-called 'F8 format'. However, in the year 80 aSWW, the latest format 'F9' was introduced, and it is pages with this coding format, among which the (old) Sound Files document, which are most suitable for making a display of a multi-level iframe hierarchy. New pages will now normally be coded in the F9 format, but altogether there are no fewer than 501 basic *.HTM and 126 nodal *.htm different or 'unique' pages. (See the Lists of Files.) In practice it is impossible to update all these files at once; it may not even be possible in one person's lifetime, that is, without interfering too much with the priority which should be given to more substantial or creative tasks. Therefore, it is of paramount importance that the visitor or user of TRINPsite be interested in its denominational, philosophical and literary content first of all. The beauty and creativity in its form may then come as a pleasant surprise.

How a finger file foretold it all

This is what a page looked like in the forty-eighth year after the end of the Second World War (33 years ago), in the early days of TRINPsite, then called "InSite", when the only means of public communication on the internet was still a finger file, a text file in monospace letters: