Frames - does anyone like them?
Simon Cox (S.Cox@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:38:40 -0400
Message-Id: <3219BFE0.1065@ned.dem.csiro.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:38:40 -0400
From: Simon Cox <S.Cox@solo.ned.dem.csiro.au>
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Frames - does anyone like them?
There have been a couple of comments about Frames recently
(embedded within messages headed Re: what happened to align=justify?).
Am I unusual in disliking these? Frames are so often stuffed
up by the programmer. And it seems to me that they are really
something of a throw-back to pre-window days - remember the early
spreadsheets that took over your whole screen but kept a menu
bar at the top? and remember those image processing systems that
allowed you to divide the graphics terminal up into panes?
I thought that these kind of ideas went away when it became possible
to open multiple windows on the same graphics screen, overlap
or tile them, tear-off menus, etc. While I can see that sometimes
it might be convenient to have a menu or contents list available all
the time, wouldn't it be better to work towards something that used
a more modern interface? Or at least restrict them to the BANNER
(if it ever arrives?).
(As an aside, I think that Sun's OpenLook interface was much
more consistent than Motif, and particularly liked the push-pins
that allowed you to keep a window or menu on screen if you wanted.
Shame it lost. After two years use I still haven't spotted a
consistent pattern in what the three mouse buttons do in Motif.)
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