- From: Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:46:30 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Al Gilman forwarded the rumors: > 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. When I was working on DynaWeb at Inso, Sun did a bunch of formal user interface testing. They found that users really didn't like frames- based interfaces, across the board. Even though the TOC-and-document simultaneous interface seems intuitive, they opted for a single page at a time, as seen at <URL:http://docs.sun.com/>. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek>
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