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Posted by David Dorward on 07/03/06 09:07
tarrou@alum.mit.edu wrote:
> I'm an old web designer that is trying to get back into the swing of
> things and was wondering if HTML preprocessors were still the best bet
> for handling the problem of many different pages that use the same
> text. (In my case, it's more than just a menu that's on ever page.)
A preprocessor generates static files which makes handling cache
control headers easier. Server side solutions make cache control
trickier but don't have a time delay while the preprocessor runs on all
the files. The preprocessor also means one more button to push. Which
is best depends on your needs (and the size of the site).
> From what I can find, most preprocessor discussions end around 2001, so
> I thought they might be obsolete.
Nope
> In that same vein, did Xframes ever take off? Are they widely supported?
On the web? No. XHTML is only supported by about 15-20%[1] of user's
clients, let alone XFrames.
OpenOffice.org[2] has some support for XFrames, although I've no idea
what form it takes there.
[1] This is a statistic. The usual provisios apply.
[2] The software that you get from the website
http://www.openoffice.org/, not the website itself.
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