- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:31:26 -0700
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Cc: rich@accessexpressed.net, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 03:40 p.m. 08/13/98 -0400, Al Gilman wrote: >I found it interesting that the "buzz" among the professional web >designers in the audience at Rob Neff's seminar was clear and >unambiguous, at least to my eavesdropping ears. > Frames are an unmitigated disaster, to be avoided like the > plague. > Clients think they are cool. > They are hard to make work right across different browsers. > They are hard to maintain. > Just not worth the trouble. I concur with Al's gossip -- it's rare to see a set of frames done "right", and usually requires either complex code or double the work in order to maintain the pages correctly. I don't make frames on client sites if I can avoid it. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> Vice President, Marketing and Outreach, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org
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