| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 15 Mar 2001 at 16:34:01 |
| Subject: | Re: <FRAMESET>s again |
Hello Don
On 15-Mar-01, you wrote:
> On 14-Mar-01, Matt Sealey wrote:
>
>> nick, go buy a book or something. It'd be a darn
>> sight quicker than asking on here for every tiny tag
>> and attribute.
>
> Get "HTML for the World Wide Web" by Elizabeth Castro. It's only about
> £16 and it covers all you need.
>
> Tables are the most important thing to understand. Frames you can do
> without, usually.
Again, a load of bullshit from the web purist crowd. Frames are great if
you can rely on a fixed display layout, or a small subset of resolutions.
How else are you going to change small amounts of screen content
without refreshing the entire display? The use of advanced DHTML is
usually a forgone conclusion for some designers, but for those with
only rudimentary Javascript on offer (um.. think 3rd Gen browsers)
being able to change small subsets of the screen for other data is a
boon.
Everything has it's use, everything has been defined to be useful. Just
because you can't use it properly and every example you've seen has
been an example of abuse does NOT make it a travesty for legitimate
designers to implement.
Once you've read that book, go look at the world outside of your PC
and it's browser and at the other applications of an HTML display.
(you've used QNX RTP haven't you? The welcome window is just a
framed HTML display being switched by links. Is that really bad?)
Thanks
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