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Industrial Control System

[email protected] (John R. Winans) · Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:30:53 -0600

>  > Are frames part of the HTML standard, or a Netscape extension?
>I just looked up an HTML3.0 standards document.  No mentation is
>made of 'frames' so I assume frames are a Netscape extension.

You guys should not be using ANY HTML3.0 stuff if you want to be universally
accessable.  The 3.0 draft was never passed and just expired.  It is being
rewritten.

IMHO, frames are popular enough to be part of it.  I agree with Chip that the 
browser's management of them is inconsistant with non-framed pages and that 
it is very annoying.  Note, however, that the specs include requirements for 
how browsers display and manage each of the features.  I am sure that we are
not the only ones that would have it changed if we could.

Meanwhile, perhaps it would be a better idea to just put the index texts on
their own HTML2.0 pages.  Or better yet to have one index using frames and 
one that uses HTML2.0 features (I am assuming that the indexes are generated
or could be put into pages using server side includes so that one would not
have to maintain two copies of them.)

--John Winans

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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