- From: Lloyd Wood <eep1lw@surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 20:41:00 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- cc: Christopher Atkinson <cwa@pipeline.com>, www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Kynn Bartlett wrote: > At 11:51 PM 12/21/1999 -0500, Christopher Atkinson wrote: > >I am afraid that I may have caused some confusion due to lack of clarity in > >my prior message: the pages I am trying to validate do not contain a > ><FRAMESET>. > >I am using frames-based navigation. I want to use <NOFRAMES> element on > >non-frameset pages in the belief that this would make navigation available > >for non-frames user agents. (Is this belief founded?) > > NOFRAMES goes -within- your FRAMESET document; putting it within an > html document that does not contain a FRAMESET has no meaning and > is not used by any user agents. This has always irritated me, since it makes combining a frameset with legit HEAD and BODY tags for non-frames browsers/head requests tricky. Compare the implementations of NOFRAME and NOSCRIPT. Grmbl. HTML could be better-thought-out here... L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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