- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:52:02 -0700
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: >> I don't see how they wouldn't. ?Everything you can accomplish with >> <frameset> and <frame> you can do with <iframe> plus gobs of javascript to >> make the drag-resizing work (probably badly, unlike the UA-provided resizing >> for <frameset>), no? ?Oh, and more hacks to get the initial sizing right and >> such, of course... > > Ah, I didn't understand how navigation in iframes works. ?So why *are* > frames banned, if you can easily replace them with iframes and get the > exact same lousy behavior? ?Because iframes also have less evil uses, > and frames don't, I guess? The big difference is that <iframe>s can be used in good ways, framesets essentially can't. Another reason do deprecate <frameset> but not <iframe> is that we don't need *two* ways to make poorly behaving pages. / Jonas
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