- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:06:30 -0000
- To: "'www-amaya@w3.org'" <www-amaya@w3.org>
> From: love26@gorge.net [SMTP:love26@gorge.net] > > Perhaps Dave was thinking of the recently announced Recommendation of > XHTML > Basic in which: > 1.3.6. Frames Frames are not supported. [DJW:] No. I'm thinking of HTML 4.0. They have never been supported in the strict version, only in the stop gap version pending better CSS support. Unfortunately they are not tagged deprecated in the narrative, and XHTML 1.0 contains a transitional version that parallels the HMTL 4.0 transitional one. Specifically, if you delete the HTML 4.0 Transitional DTD, no document using frames will validate, as the frameset DTD simply sets a flag and invokes the Transitional one. This has been discussed on the www-html list. One view is that non-support of frames was so politically charged that its deprecation was played down in the narrative. Another view is that you can only deprecate things that have been in the official standard and frames never have. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS. >
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