Hi there,


I'm getting a bit down of all those people around here that hate frames.  If
for once and for all you can express your thoughts WHY frames are bad (on
itself, not just because some codewriter doesn't think about the features
and demands and writes code that will eventually result in 'unexpected'
frame behaviour) please do so now.  I've used frames in virtually every site
I ever made, never ran into problems.

As far as I'm concerned:

GOOD...
- Easy (very) to have navigation
- No problem having to scroll up to the navigation again after reading all
the content
- Nice to have multi-level navigation
- Navigation changes?  Only one thing to change and upload.

NOT SO GOOD...
- You have to think before doing (oh no, that really puts me off ;) )
- Some browsers don't support it*
- Hard to make pixel-precise layouts that work across browsers
- Reveal some specific problems with the respective browsers (Mozilla e.g.)

*I have my site put up with an intro page with frames and noframes content.
The noframes content even has some navigation and subpages without frames as
an introduction.  Guess what... last month in total had 3399 visits on that
first page... 0,29% had non-frames capable browsers.  Visitors came back
generally 3 times a month.  If these non-frames capable boys only came over
once, it means of 1130 visits I miss 10 of them, 1,13%.  I won't be changing
a thing for them unhappy few, to be honest.


- Kayjey -
http://www.fiatcoupe.net

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