- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:49:48 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Abigail <abigail@uk.fnx.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Abigail wrote: > John Bro, InterSoft Solutions, Inc wrote: > > > About half of the unique visitors to the homepage (= about 1/4 of > > the unique visitors to the site) load the frames version, and an ave. > > of less than 10% meet with "your browser doesn't support frames - try > > this one instead" (browsers are selectively redirected to > > frames/non-frames versions). > > A couple of days ago, I browsed with Netscape 2.02 (of which I > thought was a frame aware browser) and encountered on > Netscape's own site: > > Your browser does not support frames. [http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_3.0/index.html] > > Urg. It shows how difficult it is to select which browsers are frame > aware and which aren't. Even Netscape fails to do it for their own > browsers. It's easy - if you bother to use <noframes> instead of playing user agent games. If a browsers understands frames it gets the frames - if it doesn't, it gets the <noframes> content.. One interesting point I discovered while writing some software that required knowing if a browser was frame capable was that MSIE supports single frame framesets while NS requires at least two frames. -- Benjamin Franz
Received on Wednesday, 21 August 1996 15:50:34 UTC