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Re: Why doesn't amaya support framesets?

From: Peter Kerr <p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:33:20 +1200
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <C65C4F65-3A57-4B9F-9AC3-10190C710F57@auckland.ac.nz>
To: johne1 <johnellard1@gmail.com>
On 10/05/2009, at 2:16 AM, johne1 wrote:

> What is the reason for this? Lots of web sites use frames. Are  
> frames going
> away or being replaced?

Unfortunately some browsers choose not to correctly implement frames,
just like some cannot correctly render CSS2.

I recently constructed a small set of pages in simple frames,
an index in a left side column, page content in the main frame.
W3C validated OK. Rendered OK in all browsers I tested except
Amaya and the current poster boy FireFox.

I reconstructed it with CSS2, W3C validated OK.
Rendered OK in my test set except the most widely used
on the 'net Internet Explorer.

I fell back to tables, clunkier, harder to maintain,
but they just worked. I refuse to use browser sniffing code
to dish up different versions.

Peter Kerr
Received on Saturday, 9 May 2009 21:34:16 GMT

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