Good Day Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me get it off my chest - I use frames sometimes!
As far as I'm concerned, when you have a great long scrolling list (for
example) and you want (need) to keep the nav stuff stationary, frames
represent the ONLY way to do it. [posn-fixed] doesn't work in IE, nor is it
likely to from what we've heard. I do not subscribe to the short-sighted
view that you hear so often: "It's IE that's wrong, not the standards, so
I'm going to stick to the standards". Fine if you want to lose 96% of your
visitors, but I don't. . . So, I use frames.
OK, I know about the pitfalls, but the bookmarking thing is easy to get
over - just add 2 short lines of javascript from www.CodeLifter.com :
if (parent.location.href == self.location.href){
window.location.href = 'whateverframeset.html' }
However, what I want to know is, which browsers don't support frames? I know
Lynx is a text-only browser, but no-one in their right mind is going to look
at a web gallery of images (e.g.) in a text-only browser. So which others
don't support frames? And should I be bothered?
(This is a serious question, asked in the hope of getting an informed
answer - not a rant :-)
Many thanks,
Bob McClelland,
Cornwall (U.K.)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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