- From: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:56:16 -0800 (PST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
to follow up on what nir dagan said: > Frames are visual by nature, and any linear support will not > replace the necessity for a no-frames version. Again, its up to > the authors to provide the real solution. AG:: I find this too pessimistic to accept as the long-term answer. Frames are simply too "right" an idea to relegate them to the problem list forever. Framesets are intrinsically contextual in nature. They capture the layers of the onion the way the largely ignored <LINK REL=foo > structure tried to. The problem is that the relationships are not adequately articulated; too much is left to be implicit in the visual juxtaposition. Any problem we have with framesets today we are going to have in spades with multipanel multimedia presentations. Can anyone help me find some good [or as good as they get] examples of framed sites that are feasible, easy, or even gracious to navigate in [your choice of] adaptive environment? Start at www.microsoft.com and at www.cybermedia.com and tell me about a site that is better. Al Gilman SL:: Here's a section from some documentation for my prototype browser. The section discusses frames and framesets. Frames If this browser reads a page with frames, it will display a menu with a description of each frame. The description can include word count, number of links, number of forms and a list of significant words. To choose the desired frame, just enter the number of the frame followed by the RETURN key. If you ever want to change to a different frame for that page, just type the 'fs' command followed by the RETURN key to re-display the frames menu. I found that often the analysis or description was enough to give a sense of the purpose of the frame. For example, a frame with several links and only a few words was probably an index or a catalog of some kind. A frame with some images, but few links or words was probably something decorative. Scott
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