Re: feature for HTML

>
>Fixed positioning allows certain parts of a document to remain static with
>respect to the viewport, i.e. not to scroll with the rest of the document. 
>This can be used, for instance, to provide a navigation bar, one of the
>more popular uses of frames. More sophisticated interactions, though often
>possible, tend to be a little impractical without frames, unless some sort
>of scripting is employed.
>

In argument for frames, With CSS how would you get a fixed positioning
element to scroll with it's own scrollbar... (say you had a navbar on the
left, and it was longer than the UA's window size...)

Alex Montgomery
amontgom@miranda.com

Received on Thursday, 18 February 1999 09:39:18 UTC