- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 16:47:36 -0500
- To: jmkgre@essex.ac.uk, www-html-editor@w3.org
J M K Green wrote: > > > The Frame element is fine, and almost, if not exactly the same as the > aforementioned companies own version, but the frameset element is > sorely lacking. You give the author the option to switch off spacing > between frames with <FRAME ... FRAMEBORDER="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" > MARGINHEIGHT="0" ...> which is okay, but both Netscape and MS 'between > them' developed the FRAMESET attributes <FRAMESET ... FRAMEBORDER=0 > FRAMESPACING=0 BORDER=0> which switches off the grey lines between > frames, when scrollbars would normally be. I'm afraid HTML 4.0 will not include the FRAMESET attributes that interest you. The primary reason is that the Working Group has decided that issues pertaining to presentation (of all sorts: visual, audio, etc.) should be addressed through style sheets and not through HTML attributes. Athough I have not tested this myself, you may be able to control the presentation of frame borders today with Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1 today (in NN 4, and IE 3 and 4). I hope this helps, Ian
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