Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/23/06 10:12

Rob McAninch wrote:

> In general, frames are bad idea as others have pointed out.
> iframes are more accepted.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=iframe

egads no. IFRAME suffers from nearly all of the usability problems that
frames do:

* "orphan" pages[1];
* limitations when bookmarking pages;
* problems printing complete pages;
* multiple scroll bar confusion; and
* poor support in older browsers[2].

Many of these problems have solutions, but why bother with hacks and
workarounds when you can avoid the problem altogether.

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1. If "http://example.org/index.html" opens an IFRAME containing
"http://example.org/welcome_note.html", then anybody directly visiting
"http://example.org/welcome_note.html" will see an "orphan" page, probably
without any navigation or site logos, branding, etc.

2. Indeed IFRAME has worse support than FRAME.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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