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Posted by eyal.herlin on 02/21/07 15:20
On Feb 21, 4:33 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit eyal.her...@gmail.com:
>
> > i didn't see any reference to the dir attribute in the frames section.
> > what confuses me is that <html dir="rtl"> is legal so why won't it be
> > effective in the context of a frameset?
>
> No good reason. When frames were invented by the &evil;, they didn't think
> very much (otherwise they would not have invented frames) and almost surely
> had no idea of internationalization. Later when frames were pushed into a
> formal spec, it was dirty work and people didn't think too much.
>
> Logically, a dir attribute on <html> _should_ affect the layout direction of
> frames just as it affects the layout direction of tables, and <frameset>
> _should_ allow the dir attribute. But things went differently, and it hasn't
> bother people much since it really affects some multilingual sites only -
> and only if they use frames.
>
> > i will probably change the frames layout programmatically and later on
> > move to no frames.
>
> Why? The more work it takes to get rid of frames, the sooner you should
> start with it. Just make sure you coordinate this with an overall redesign.
> You know, separating content from presentation, moving all styling to CSS,
> using HTML 4.01 Strict, checking accessibility and usability, etc. It's so
> much easier to do a nice redesign once than different redesigns every year.
>
> --
> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
thanks alot, u cleared my head and gave me a good direction :-)
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