Posted by dorayme on 10/20/07 06:14

In article <bb681$4718ded6$40cba7cb$1244@NAXS.COM>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> 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.

Anyway, I recall moving from frames a while back after getting
fed up of a few things and being gently prodded in this group...
not least by my old pal Mark Parnell. Talking about whom, anyone
feintly tempted by frames might as well do them well, pertinent
to which is:

<http://www.markparnell.com.au/articles/frames.php>

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dorayme

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