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Re: web page in frames
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lugnet.publish
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Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:01:19 GMT
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:11:13 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote:
> Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > Since the subject of frames has come up again, anyone want to make
> > suggestions for the Elements Image Catalog site?
> > <http://partsref.home.att.net/>
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> I think this is a demonstration of a perfectly good use of frames. Can
> someone offer a good reason why this site shouldn't use them?
(Because people hate frames)
> > There's another reason I'm looking at the design of this site. WorldNet
> > has added site-search capabilities[1]. I'm thinking it would be a good
> > thing to generate element pages, so that visitors could do reasonable
> > text-searching. Mixing frames and search-results pages sounds like a Bad
> > Thing to me.
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> Don't make it mixed. Make it so your links in the left frame are actually
> search queries.
Ooo, I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to ponder that idea some more.
Steve
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| (...) Those people are silly. :) I'm serious, actually. It's a prejudice spawned by a lot of sites with terrible use of frames. Sure, they're easy to misuse, but that doesn't make all uses bad. (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Hmmm. I think people hate the misuse of frames more than they frames per se. Notwithstanding, of course, frames do have icky issues like bookmarking and keyboard focus and all that. But heck, the way you're using frames, it's got a great (...) (25 years ago, 11-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I think this is a demonstration of a perfectly good use of frames. Can someone offer a good reason why this site shouldn't use them? (...) Don't make it mixed. Make it so your links in the left frame are actually search queries. (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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