Hidden frames are great for a lot of things, but with the good also
comes bad.
Hidden frames allow you to:
- store values that appear to persistent across multiple pages in a site
- use document.write() to create a "poor mans" DHTML functionality in
older browsers
- save and load content for other frames / DIV's/ layers/ script
variables on your site asynchronously ...and without the user having to
wait for a reload.
- lots of other useful functionality..typically involving JS
The bad:
- you usually need a lot of JS ...i.e. a better chance of your site
breaking because of a browser you didn't test or a bug in the code
- if users bookmark directly to a page in the frame as opposed to the
frameset containing the hidden frame... they might experience errors
- if a users hits F5, .i.e. reloads the page ...the persistence your
frame was providing is now gone.
Well, there's my 2 cents.
-eric
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Eric Barr
Zeff Design
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-----Original Message-----
From: Earl, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 12:51 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Hidden frames
How many of you are using hidden frames as a part of your every day CF
development? What kinds of things are you using them for? Are there any
big
picture considerations one needs to take with this approach? Do you have
comments about the good and the bad of going down this path? Thanks!
George
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