Re: Getting rid of frames

in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Marcel Stör wrote:

Thanks a bunch for the link. Some nice examples there...
However, they're all a bit different from what I'm really after. I want to
keep the ~30px padding inside the viewport (dark grey in my example). Also,
I need the "box" to stretch to the entire width & height of the viewport.
Last but not least, except for the content area all elements should remain
static (i.e. "in place") when the viewport is resized or the content
requires scrolling.
In my example this is achieved with a frameset inside an iframe, which is
double ugly.

That can be done using CSS, and can be made "work" on your browser window
and display settings (but not on every other with same code). But using
CSS alternative means to get effect of frames is even more inaccessible
that frames. There is commands that allow navigating within and between
frames in browsers. There is also somewhat easy way to open page in
normal sized window instead stamp size frame, as well as change size of
frame to better fill or fit browser window.

Only real benefit on CSS based frames over conventional frames is that it
can be turned off easier. I don't think that is very good base for
redesign.

What you need to do is to get rid of frames, not to reimplement them in
less robust latest technology.



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