- From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:40:04 -0600 (CST)
- To: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- cc: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
Dave J Woolley, at 12:25 -0000 on Thu, 1 Feb 2001, wrote:
[DJW:] Because CSS should be used instead.
While I normally don't use frames, I think there are justified uses for
frames. Consider a situation such as a file-tree viewier, such as
Windows' Explorer or KDE's file manager. By using such a combintation,
the "tree" frame can be used independently of the "file-listing" frame;
the tree-frame doesn't have to be re-loaded because of some action in the
file-listing frame. The two frames also can be scrolled independently. In
general, think of how many non-web applications work; they provide
multiple frames for doing work which can act independent or in unison.
Frames also provide the ability to embed pages from other sites in a
fairly transparent manner, without any knowledge of the embedded site.
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Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
Received on Thursday, 1 February 2001 11:40:07 UTC