- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 07:42:00 PDT
- To: www-html <www-html@w3.org>
If the document is well-suited and well-designed for frames, in my experience they can be a great navigational help. Netscape's site is pretty good in that regard. I have not used frames yet on my own pages, but I also only recently started using forms and tables, as I wanted to wait until the vast majority of browsers supported those features (my first pages were designed for Tom Bruce's Cello browser back during the CGI 1.1 development period, if that gives you any idea to their antiquity). Frames vs. overlapping windows is the "tiled vs. overlapping" windows debate that went on in 1980's, now moved to the Web browser GUI arena. I suspect overlapped won then in part because screen real estate was even more precious then than now. Even at home I run about half the time in 800x600 and at work I run at 1024x768 -- but I remember developing software for the IBM PC where you either had 320x200x4 colors or 640x200x2 (b&w). Just like any other specification language feature (and markup specification languages share a lot with programming languages here), frames can be misused. Both frames and overlapping windows are useful in their places. ====================================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
Received on Thursday, 22 August 1996 08:33:44 UTC