- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:45:44 -0700
- To: "Murray Altheim" <murray@spyglass.com>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Murray Altheim wrote: > I have yet to see the "necessity" of frames. IMO it's another whiz-bang > gizmo that makes people feel their documents are more sophisticated. And we > have spent entirely too much energy on whiz-bang gizmos at the expense of > creating a Web capable of building an information infrastructure for our > expanding knowledge base. Perhaps not necessary, but methinks desirable. I'm working on an interactive form at http://www.socrates.com/soc-cost.html . Except for IMGs, it's a single html file. All computation and content generation are done client-side, so Results and Help are immediate. This could have been done without frames and Javascript, but consider the time and bandwidth eaten up by repeatedly querying the server for results. Not an excercise in whiz-bangery, this just seemed the most efficient way to do the job. The same approach could benefit non-commercial enterprises. David
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