- From: Sunil Mishra <smishra@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:23:59 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
\\ I disagree in that navigation is actually more difficult to a user. I \\ agree on your later statement that they're not usually "well-implemented". \\ Navigation can be confusing and bewildering to users. We've performed a \\ focus group for a frames site and had many complaints from new users... The problem goes beyond simply navigation. Frames make keeping track of history much harder, and bookmarking impossible. If the web were made entirely of frames, we would never be able to remember where we were. I find that thought quite frightening. Also, thinking about content when you are dealing with one page at a time is hard enough. With frames, you have to start thinking about the relationship each *possible* pair of pages can have to each other. It's no longer a simple graph structure you are looking at. This is not of as much concern now as it will be in the future, when we begin to see more intelligent search mechanisms on the web. I personally would much rather see a self contained document, with or without frames, in the sense that every relevant document LINKed to it. BANNER was a start, but nowhere nearly enough to capture the details one would wish for. Sunil
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