> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Brian Kelly wrote:
>
> > But will automatically removing all frames not possibly cause other
> > problems?
> >
> > If an accessibility service, a bookmarking service, an authoring tool or
> > whatever makes use of frames might you not regret this decision in the
> > longer run?
>
> Can you give some examples? Why would anyone want to link to our home page
> within a frameset?
>
> Kriss
Speculation rather than concrete examples.
Someone develops a site mapping application which provides thumbnail images
of pages on your Web site, implemented using frames.
A browser is developed which allows you to see your bookmarks, history files
as well as a web page. The interface makes use of frames, created on the
fly.
An organisation which is part of our community (HERO?) develops a portal to
UK Universities. The HEI community approves of this work, and funds it.
One of its services is to provide a frames-based interface to University Web
sites, allowing portal-sensitive navigation, while allow the frames to be
removed, if the user so desires.
An accessibility services provides accessibility information using a frames
interface to people with disabilities who have a frames-compliant browser.
Ah - thought of a a concrete example - which I created! Some kind person
provides a rolling demonstration of Web sites, such as UK University entry
points. This uses a frames interface to provide end user navigation across
the Web sites.
See
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/site-rolling-demos/universities/universitie
s.html
Note that this example creates a new window.When I first tried out the tool
to create this, I created frames-based interfaces. If I've have gone down
this route, sites with the frame-breakers would have broken.
So although I agree with you that frames are often a bad idea, I think there
may be exceptions to this.
Brian
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