- From: Michael Stevens <mike@hydro.tokenzone.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:23:11 -0400
- To: "Jon Haworth" <JHaworth@witanjardine.co.uk>, "W3C Mailing List" <www-html@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <PEEFINEOJCNKLJFFDDFCMEPMCAAA.mike@hydro.tokenzone.com>
dude...Jon, you are the man! That's exactly what I needed to know. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Haworth [mailto:JHaworth@witanjardine.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:04 PM > To: 'Michael Stevens'; W3C Mailing List > Subject: 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 > > ********************************************************************** > 'The information included in this Email is of a confidential nature > and is > intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended > addressee, > any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may > be > unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether > inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or > confidentiality' > > > ********************************************************************** >
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