Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/19/07 16:43

Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <7f5a8$4718d98d$40cba7cb$2595@NAXS.COM>,
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
>
>> Tim Streater wrote:
>>
>>> Then they have my phone number, and I will ask them what sort of
>>> Internet engineer are they, running without JS to our database front-end
>>> site. This has not been a problem in the 8 years since I started
>>> developing this.
>> You miss the point entirely. What you do for your "web"site for your 50
>> engineers has *nothing* to do for *recommended* practice for public
>> website design. You may *force* your 50 engineers to install an IE
>> ActiveX control so your page can embed AutoCAD drawings but this should
>> not be general advice, especially for newbies on web design.
>
> I never said that it did. I "force" them, as you put it, to use JS,
> hardly an onerous requirement is this day and age. I know of no browser
> that doesn't support it and the several I tested against the app gave,
> by and large, no problems.
>
> If I forced them to use IE6 or higher under XP *only*, as many sites
> appear to do, then you might have something to complain about.

The point is frames, a hack to begin with, are unnecessary today when a
webserver is involved and with the ubiquitous availability of
server-side scripting. Back at their creation, server-side was rare and
expensive and server-side languages were either in their infancy or yet
to be developed. Other than sheer ignorance I can see no use for them
except the narrow application where a webserver is not available, e.i.,
on local files systems, CD-ROM applications, very-very cheap hosting
with no server-side.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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