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Posted by dorayme on 11/27/05 11:57
In article <4m26r0F457bsU2@individual.net>,
Arne <invalid@domain.invalid> wrote:
> Once upon a time *Adrienne Boswell* wrote:
> > Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Max@Volume.com writing in
> > news:3l6nf21g3kq17a8cvdsaigq7pjugh7ft8u@4ax.com:
> >
> >> what is the difference between HTML 4.01 Transitional versus Frameset?
> >> Am I right to think that Frameset is a superset of Transitional, or
> >> are there differences? If a document does not contain frames, is there
> >> any difference between Transitional and Frameset?
> >>
> >> Yes, I am looking at this from the point of view of validation,
> >> specifically http://validator.w3.org/
> >>
> >
> > Frameset is for frame documents only, where framedoc.html looks like:
> > <frameset ...>
> > <frame src="page.html">
> > <frame src="other.html">
> > </frameset>
> >
> > Framedoc.html would use the Frameset DTD, page.html and other.html should
> > use Strict. New documents should use a Strict DTD.
> >
>
> I belive you are wrong. To avoid a link in a framed page to a extern
> site loaded within your frames, you must use the target attribute and
> that's not valid i Strict. So framed pages should be Transitional.
I dug out an old framed site of mine and it accords with what
Adrienne says and validates. In other words, it has the frameset
DTD for the frameset but the other strict 4.01 for the docs that
the frames refer to. But I think there is an issue surrounding
this and have forgotten.
--
dorayme
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