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    Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Tom Stangl
   (...) Frames are EXTREMELY useful....when done RIGHT. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
   
        Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Michael Hader
     (...) Agreed, but when done wrong, they can be very bad.. Michael (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
   
        Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) No, they are not. One cannot give a URL to take a person directly, one has to quote navigation path. That's bogus. Followups to .publish, this is a pet peeve of mine that I have expounded on there before. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Todd Lehman
      (...) I have to agree wholeheartedly with Tom. When done right -- and it's rare -- the benefits of frames do outweigh the drawbacks, IMO. Check out Joshua Delahunty's review archive if you've never seen a site that does frames right. Joshua gives (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
     
          Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Jasper Janssen
      (...) To tell you the truth, I don't see the value added. Whenever you view a review, the top frame changes to reflect the set. This means there are no problems with URLs pointing to the main page, but it also means that for every review you read, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Matthew Miller
      (...) Arguably, that's a flaw in the implementation, not the concept of frames themselves. There should be some way to reference a given set of framed documents using a single URL. Hmmm; actually, that could be done with cgi. So arguably, that's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
    
         Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Tom Stangl
     Nope, not going to follow up, as it's obvious that you are hopelessly incorrect about this ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
   
        Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs —Jasper Janssen
   (...) Nah. Frames are _Evil_. The navigator team should all be shot, hung, drawn, and quartered for <blink>, <img>, and <frameset>. <blink> tag purposely left unclosed for those reading with extremely wonky newsclients. Jasper (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
 

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