RE: off topic but if anyone feels like lending a helping hand it would be much appreciated

IIRC Netscape 4.x only allows frames in a grid - not sure of the size but I
think it's 5px intervals. If you try and put a frame in between two
intervals NS will move it to the closest gridline.

BTW, two excellent lists for this sort of question can be found at (a)
http://lists.evolt.org/ and (b) http://www.wdvl.com/WDVL/Forum/

Cheers
Jon


>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Michael Stevens [mailto:mike@hydro.tokenzone.com] 
> Sent:	04 May 2001 16:22
> To:	W3C Mailing List
> Subject:	off topic but if anyone feels like lending a helping hand it
> would be much appreciated
> 
> When opening a precisely sized window that exactly fits the contents of
> the page via JavaScript with a frameset inside I get a small display
> discrepancy between Netscape 4.x and IE (Netscape 6 displays the same as
> IE). 
> 
> The frameset is coded as follows:
> 
> <frameset rows="39,*,64" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0"> 
>  <frame name="topFrame" scrolling="no" noresize src="viewer1.htm" >
>  <frameset cols="25,*,25" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0"> 
>   <frame name="leftFrame" scrolling="no" noresize src="viewer2.htm">
>   <frame name="mainFrame" scrolling="no" noresize src="viewer3.htm">
>   <frame name="rightFrame" scrolling="no" noresize src="viewer4.htm">
>  </frameset>
>  <frame name="bottomFrame" scrolling="no" noresize src="viewer5.htm">
> </frameset>
> 
> This frameset is basically a media content viewer window.  The 39, 64 and
> 25 pixel frames act as borders for the "wild card" frame which holds
> content (dynamically placed using JSP).
> 
> The content frame is the one with the problem here (I have also tried it
> with absolute sizes, with identical results.)
> 
> So, here's the problem:  In IE and Netscape 6 all of the frames join
> together just as I had hoped and surround the content frame
> seamlessly...BUT in Netscape 4.x I get about 4 pixels added on to the
> right of the content frame with totally blows the effect of the
> surrounding frames being the encapsulating frame which holds the content.
> (if I open the window with 4 less pixels on the width it works great in
> Netscape 4.x but not the others.  Of course I could have two versions
> catered for each circumstance but that's kind of clumsy and slightly less
> efficient than I would like to be...but if that's the only option then
> well...that's the only option.  The strange thing is that this seems to be
> the default of Netscape since I can't find anything that would make it add
> these 4 pixels to the right.  Is there a navigator proprietary attribute
> that could fix this??  I haven't been able to track down anything.
> 
> Why use a frameset instead of tables?  Well to keep this "viewer" as
> flexible as possible and allow content to be included from anywhere (i.e.
> video from a streaming server) we need to be able to just dynamically drop
> a URL for the content into the frame.
> 
> If anyone else has ever had this problem or knows a better way (other than
> frames) to deal with this (which I would gladly welcome) then please let
> me know...or just send me a link to something that could point me in the
> right direction.  I'm at a loss.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
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