Re: feature for HTML

Tim Bagot <tsb@earth.li> wrote:
>Of course, frames are now deprecated, and not supported by CSS, which
>provides similar functionality through other mechanisms.

A combination of CSS and OBJECT inclusion of other html documents (or
use of DIVs if one wants to duplicate content in many files) can be
used to do something like this.  For example, the fixed part of the
frameset (the contents / toolbar frame) can be in a separate file, and
included in the files that change (so that the URLs change) by using
OBJECT.  One could set the OBJECT (or DIV) and a DIV containing the
main contents to have position: fixed and scroll: auto (and the correct
position).  I don't think, however, that this would work in any current
browser.

However, this does not handle what I see as one of the best features
of frames.  They can be resized by the user.  I don't think I will stop
using frames until this can be done another (reliable) way.  (I also
see the saving of bandwidth as an important feature.)

It would be nice if there were some URL syntax that could store the
state of a frameset.  This would solve the main problem frames cause.
I think there was talk of this a few years ago (when frames first
appeared), but certainly nothing ever came out of it.

David Baron

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Received on Thursday, 18 February 1999 16:47:27 UTC