Posted by Brendan Gillatt on 07/13/06 15:53

Water Cooler v2 wrote:
> Are HTML frames a good thing or a bad thing?

They are bad in the way most people use them - as a way of changing the
content on all pages with just one file. Server side scripting is far
more adept to this job and only pumps out one page.
What they should be used for is exactly what they are named as - a way
to frame multiple, differing pages of information, perhaps from
different websites, into one. For example a site may decide to have a
comparison of two different pages with a similar topic, say different
specifications for alternative products.

> For someone who knows HTML, and only a measely bit of JavaScript and
> DOM familiarity, what are the alternatives to frames?

If you want a menu I would say use <div> elements and server side
scripting to include a common page of information.

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