Posted by jake on 08/27/05 12:25

In message <szHPe.35429$Hx4.21329@twister.nyroc.rr.com>, Beauregard T.
Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> writes
>David Dorward wrote:
>> Konrad Hammerer wrote:
>>
>>> I want to have a navigation on the left side and a
>>> Header-Information on top of the page which stays there even if
>>> the user uses the scrollbar.
>> Why? The vast majority of sites don't do that and users manage to
>> cope OK. The main effect that will have (*if* you implement frames
>> well) would be to reduce the effective screen space the user has
>> available for reading the actual content.
>
>Exactly. My browser normally has a usable 450-500 pixels of height for
>the content, on this 800x600px monitor. It is really annoying when some
>web developer thinks I need to stare at his/her huge site logo all the
>time I am trying to read the content in about a 250 pixel height area.
>
>Get over it. Your logo is not nearly as important as your content.
>
>And I don't think anyone has yet mentioned the bookmarking disaster,

Disaster? What disaster? No problems at all for the 90% of users who use
IE; the other browser manufacturers haven't even considered this a
feature worth implementing in their offerings (even in minority browsers
you can usually book-mark the frame, if not the full context).

>or the search engine problems,

No SE problems for a well-written frames-based site.

>of a framed site.
>

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Jake
(jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

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