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 More options Aug 19 2008, 4:38 pm
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
From: mpm <mpmill...@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:38:16 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Aug 19 2008 4:38 pm
Subject: Re: "Frames" Question
On Aug 19, 11:13 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com>

> On my Firefox (v2.00.16) the "frames" overlap and blank-out portions
> of other panels.
> Any idea what he did wrong, so I can tell him politely?

Politely, you could mention that frames have some disadvantages.

1 - They can be hard to navigate
2 - Their scroll bars can hog precious real estate
3 - They can be hard to get indexed in search engines
4 - Once indexed, can appear independently without benefit of their
surrounding and supporting frames
5 - Better to embed content using fixed positioning and the use of
OBJECT elements. (per W3C)

Most likely, your friend has set the noresize in the frame tag to
zero.  (Or has set the border width in the border tag to zero).
Either way, visitors won't be able to resize the frames - which (sight
unseen - no pun intended) would seem like reasonable solutions to the
problem.

Also, in Explorer 5, if you set the border width to less than 5, the
border disappears and visitors won't be able re-size them (regardless
of the noresize attribute).  Not sure if that is the same for Firefox,
as I don't use it that much.  It is not a problem in IE-6.

You could also introduce your friend to CSS?  Obviously, with fixed-
position layouts.

-mpm


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