Posted by dorayme on 11/17/18 11:58

In article <0c1ng2drhh16mv7gq3f09fkssfd2cke55n@4ax.com>,
Max@Volume.com wrote:

> Why doesn't Strict have target? How are you supposed to get the same
> results using Strict?

A question I once wondered about myself. I concluded it was out
of pure spite against a much hated technology. If I recall, you
can do it in Strict by not worrying about the validation? Or you
grab the Strict and make it ex-Strict - change the DTD to
Transitional.

> >All rather moot since frameless frames should be the way to go today.
>
> How do you get the effect of frameless frames? If you want a small
> left frame to load documents into a larger right frame, without using
> frames, how would you do it?

That is easy if we are talking appearances here, with some
allowances of difference. You simply make an HTML page that has a
left column (it can be a <div> floated left or positioned left,
or a left table cell), and the clicked links load another HTML
page with the "same" left column but different right column.

In respect to the left column, the identity is not numerical,
just attributional. Think of identical twins, (no... not
Schwarzenegger and DeVito) there are two, but you cannot easily
tell them apart.

Downside is considerable, true, but everyone seems to have got
used to it: unlike in frames, the left col scrolls with the
right. There are ways to stop this but they are not well
supported across all the browsers and there may be other
downsides I have forgotten.

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dorayme

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