Re: Frames: IE vs. NN

Gus,

One of the things I've learned with working with framesets and Netscape is
that even though Netscape designed the frame tag to start, to this day, it
cannot build frames to pixel-specific sizes, instead estimating everything
based on a percentage of the window width. See
http://www.builder.com/Authoring/Tagmania/120699/index.html for additional
information on this. Me, I'm trying to figure out how to build a site using
the frameset design, but without frames -- instead DIVs and such from CSS.
So far, the tests are promising. It doesn't work in Opera 3.62 for Windows,
and has problems in others, but looks and works almost perfectly in IE,
Mozilla (M14), Netscape, Opera 4, and WebTV -- except that WebTV, Opera, and
Netscape don't "lock" a certain region into it's defined space like a frame
would.

Good luck!
Kehvan M. Zydhek

----- Original Message -----
From: <wolfz3(at)earthlink.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:55
Subject: Frames: IE vs. NN


Hello all,

I'm working on a new set of personal homepages, but have run into somewhat
of a
problem.  The frames are being chopped 2 or 3 pixels in Netscape, but they
come
out fine in IE.  You can view the test page at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~wolfz3/beta/home.htm

(Please pardon the coding, as at the moment it's loaded with what may be
extraneous information in my attempts to make it work right in NN.)

I've tried everything I can think of, from adding marginwidth and
marginheight
attribs to the body tag of each frame's html (as well as to the frame tags
of
the base page) to...ugh...let's just say that I'm out of ideas. :)

Tried searching the archives and didn't come up with anything, so my
apologies
if this has been covered before.

I'm not ready yet to give up on making this design work right in NN, though
the
responses I've gotten from others is to leave well enough alone.

Thanks in advance for any information or help you could provide.

Regards,

Gus Zandt
wolfz3(at)earthlink.net

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