- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:25:44 -0000
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Steve Doig [SMTP:Steve.Doig@shihad.zzn.com] > > Why should you move away from frames? - I thought thay were valid useful > constructs. > [DJW:] Because CSS should be used instead. Because they are not in XHTML 1.1. Because they are in a part of HTML 4 reserved for deprecated and stop gap features and have never been in the preferred version of any W3C specfication. Because they make creation of a web++ difficult because you can't deep link to a frame combination and can't even reliably deep link to a single frame (often it will simply script itself to the home page). Because you cannot see page titles or URIs on fully frame capable browsers, encouraging badly titled frames. Because they encourage people to create sites that don't degrade gracefully to older browsers, text only browser, and, to some extent TV browsers. ++ in the sense intended in "the World Wide Web", not in the sense used by Front Page. --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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