Re: Frames Are Improving
Benjamin Franz (snowhare@netimages.com)
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
To: "Jason O'Brien" <jaobrien@fttnet.com>
cc: "'www'" <www-html@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Frames Are Improving
In-Reply-To: <321C7740@smtpgate.ftt.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.960822094547.28361A-100000@ns.viet.net>
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Jason O'Brien wrote:
>
> I once swore off of frames forever, but since the latest versions of
> Netscape and MS Internet Explorer now allow for better navigation within
> frames, (hitting the BACK button at least allows going back within the
> frame) which was the big problem before, I think frames are becoming
> easier to use and incorporate into web page design. The biggest problem
> still to solve is the fact that everyone views web pages on different
> display sizes, and this will forever be a problem for designing frames --
> does anyone else have a standard they design for? I have learned that
> most people use 800x600, the in-between on most PC's -- does anyone else
> have any kind of statistics on what most people use? I don't know if
> this problem will ever be solved when dealing with frame design.
It turns out that MSIE is including screen size in their headers. I
generated stats a few weeks ago. From about a million or so hits on
XMission:
37.3% ( 640,480 )
39.3% ( 800,600 )
20.1% ( 1024,768 )
1.4% ( 1152,864 )
0.1% ( 1152,882 )
1.8% ( 1280,1024 )
0.1% ( 1600,1200 )
This is probably biased towards the high end because of minimum system
requirements to run Win95/NT.
--
Benjamin Franz