Frames spec & the NOFRAMES tag
Ben Haller (bhaller@apple.com)
Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:39:17 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:39:17 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <9803040030.AA10532@santafe.apple.com>
To: www-html@w3.org
From: Ben Haller <bhaller@apple.com>
Subject: Frames spec & the NOFRAMES tag
I'm trying to figure out a few things about the frames spec as it
stands now (i.e. 4.0).
Please reply to me directly as well as to the list -- I just
subscribed a few minutes ago & have little confidence that I'll get
replies sent only to the list, due to lag.
First of all, am I correct in thinking that with NOFRAMES, there
is no way to specify those attributes that are normally on the BODY
tag, such as text color, background, etc.? Why aren't these also
attributes on NOFRAMES -- why doesn't it just act identically to
BODY? For that matter, why do they even have NOFRAMES -- why not
just use a BODY, which frames-aware apps would know not to display
because a FRAMESET was found first, and which frames-unaware apps
would treat as the body, as intended?
Secondly, am I correct in thinking that BODY used to be required
within NOFRAMES, where now it is prohibited, and that FRAMESET is now
legal within FRAMESET, where you used to have to used a FRAME that
had an url for a different document with the nested FRAMESET in it?
Perhaps I shouldn't even worry about such things, but I'd like to
know how this stuff has evolved, to know what things I'm likely to
find out there on the Web which may be common despite being
non-spec-compliant.
-Ben Haller
WebObjects Builder
Apple Computer, Inc.
bhaller@apple.com