- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:05:32 -0500
- To: "'W3C Style List'" <www-style@w3.org>, "'W3C HTML List'" <www-html@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 07:15 AM 26/11/97 -0500, David Norris wrote: >Basically, my thought is to >rid ourselves of frames in favor of a CSS property that does it without >requiring a 'compatible' graphical user agent. Backward and forward >compatibility is the key. Older agents ignore it and newer agents enhance >it. This is exactly what Andrew's example [1] provides. >It is perfectly feasible to have a >block tag to position the text in a permanent location along one edge in a >graphical agent, though. No, HTML is not a presentation language. However, you can use DIV to mark a block as somehow different (as in Andrew's "footer", etc.), and then use CSS2 to position that block in a permanent location along one edge in a graphical agent. Again, that's what Andrew's example does. >A user >agent, in an environment where this would not work, could simply ignore that >docking info and render the page top to bottom. This page would be >perfectly readable by any user agent, old or new. Provided by Andrew's example. A user agent, in an environment where this would not work, would ignore the docking info and render the page top to bottom--currently header, then sidebar, then main, then footer. Perfect. (Some may prefer the sidebar to be after main; this is a simple change.) >The problem, currently, is that it requires careful use of CSS. Visual authoring tools could make it easier. >A less knowledgeable author could destroy >a document's value by ignorantly misusing your example. I can destroy any document's value with ignorance, even if it uses only HTML 2.0 and no CSS. [1] http://www.media-electronica.com/%7Eamarshal/Tests/divframes.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNHw6u/P8EtNrypTwEQK35wCfXpZxG0doK+3jVNToevXGqoKpZC0AoN4b vzbAIipPeVWvfAFf5FpdoxKn =ocWw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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