On 22 Sep 98, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
> Brent, it almost seems pointless to use frames at all if you are going to
> redraw the entire page every time <G> You might as well just bag the
> frames and do it the "normal" way.
>
> I know that you know this, I'm just pulling your chain a bit ;-)
Hell Barry, you could have stopped at "it almost seems pointless to use
frames at all" and left it at that :)
But when you think about it, my solution is pretty much the same as
implementing a regular frameset, except that *all* the frames reload each
time, not just one. As noted, with the more static frames cached anyway
it makes little difference in practice.
What I think this really demonstrates is that frames, by and large, are a
lot of headache for comparatively little return. Usually all you're achieving,
whether with one frameset or multiple, is keeping an element (most often
navigation) constantly onscreen. Given that "optimal" Web pages are
usually quite concise, it should normally be possible to keep navigation at
least within easy reach -- if not actually visible -- at all times. Without
frames.
Where I find them quite useful is on sites where individual pages are of
necessity quite long, and where I'm likely to be to-ing and fro-ing quite a
bit. Online documentation is a good example -- in a long multi-chapter
publication it can be frustrating to scroll waaayyy up and down pages, and
trying to find one's way back and forth amongst sections; here a fixed
Table of Contents in a frame makes sense.
But back to your original point: yeah, there will seldom be any compelling
reason to use frames if part of the process entails reloading every file
every time.
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