Are HTML frames good?

Water Cooler v2 wrote

Are HTML frames a good thing or a bad thing?

I've never needed to use them, so I would say they were unnecessary rather
than good or bad. Having said that, they are a f*cking pain if you are
trying to bookmark a page.

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Water Cooler v2 wrote:

Are HTML frames a good thing or a bad thing?

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...nt=f irefox-a

In case that link does not work, google catinadogsworld and look at
google's cache (the 1k version). Bad, I would say.

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Water Cooler v2 wrote:

Are HTML frames a good thing or a bad thing?

They are bad in the way most people use them - as a way of changing the
content on all pages with just one file. Server side scripting is far
more adept to this job and only pumps out one page.
What they should be used for is exactly what they are named as - a way
to frame multiple, differing pages of information, perhaps from
different websites, into one. For example a site may decide to have a
comparison of two different pages with a similar topic, say different
specifications for alternative products.

For someone who knows HTML, and only a measely bit of JavaScript and
DOM familiarity, what are the alternatives to frames?

If you want a menu I would say use <div> elements and server side
scripting to include a common page of information.

Thanks, Stephen and Els. I got it. I always used to wonder how they
squeeze something like the navigation bar to the left because HTML is
normally written horizontally, if you know what I mean -- what comes
first is put above until the space on that row gets over.

Historically, one used tables for layouts.
Notice that I have no intention to start a table vs css discussion...
Merely pointing out that was how you did it in the past.


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I have no intention to start a table vs css discussion...

Nooooo - too late, what /have/ you done?

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