- From: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:38:22 -0700
- To: Tapio Markula <tapio1@gamma.nic.fi>
- CC: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
From: Tapio Markula <tapio1@gamma.nic.fi> Date: Fri, Sep 1, 2000, 10:31 AM > At 09:57 31.8.2000 -0700, you wrote: >>From: Karl Dubost <kd@w3.org> >>Date: Thu, Aug 31, 2000, 9:23 AM >> >>> Absolute positioning in CSS is far better than frame to have non >>> scrollable menu in terms of accessibility, URL usability, etc. >> >>To be precise, what you are looking for is position:fixed (as defined in >>CSS-2) to place the elements which you wish to function as frames, and the >>overflow property to determine whether or not they have scrollbars. > > Doesn't work as you wish. In Opera 4.02 position:fixed works well but not > overflow. In MS IE 5.5 works overflow but not position:fixed! ONLY Mozilla > Gecko support both of them! No. IE5/Mac supports both of them since it shipped almost six months ago. > CSS2 offers in PRINCIPLE, but NOT in PRACTISE fine systems to replace some > functionality of frames. Agreed. Most of the necessary mechanisms are in the standard, but they are not widely implemented, yet. Tantek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A simple household item. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/
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