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Design question: frames
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| Jeff Johnson 2004-07-31, 3:56 am |
| Are frames passé? Are they sooooo 90's? Or is it still perfectly acceptable
to use them? If not, how would you handle a classic banner/navbar/content
layout without them, especially if you want the content to be scrollable but
not the banner or navbar?
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| Tim Wallace 2004-07-31, 3:56 am |
| I say if browsers support them, use them (responsibly).
Tim
"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> wrote in message
news:umPI2VrdEHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Are frames passé? Are they sooooo 90's? Or is it still perfectly
acceptable
> to use them? If not, how would you handle a classic banner/navbar/content
> layout without them, especially if you want the content to be scrollable
but
> not the banner or navbar?
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>
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| Robert 2004-07-31, 3:56 am |
| I could be wrong, but from my observations people who don't like frames
typically don't understand them or have not taken the time to figure out how
to get desired effects with them. And I've observed that the more
impassioned they are, the more naive they usually are with respect to
frames. Personally, I like being able to refresh only a portion of the data
on screen without having to refresh the entire page when only a part needs
to get updated. An example would be a photo album: show the thumbnails in
one frame and the full-size pic in another. With frames, there is no flicker
across the thumbnails when the full-size image is displayed. The same
layout - but without frames - will result in a flicker of the entire page as
all the thumbnails get refreshed (on top of that, refreshing them is totally
unnecessary).
Just my 2 cents worth....
"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> wrote in message
news:umPI2VrdEHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Are frames passé? Are they sooooo 90's? Or is it still perfectly
acceptable
> to use them? If not, how would you handle a classic banner/navbar/content
> layout without them, especially if you want the content to be scrollable
but
> not the banner or navbar?
>
>
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| Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Are frames passé? Are they sooooo 90's? Or is it still perfectly
> acceptable to use them? If not, how would you handle a classic
> banner/navbar/content layout without them, especially if you want the
> content to be scrollable but not the banner or navbar?
If you're OK with the drawbacks, it's no problem to use them:
[url]http://developers.evrsoft.com/article/web-design/web-design-tutorials/advantages-and-di vantages-of-frames.shtml[/url]
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Jos
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