Re: FLASH: Flash, HTML & Frames (Slightly OT)

[Hal Medrano]

>I've always been against frames. I hate them, they ruin webpages. Linking

>and printing and scrolling become confusing and rather annoying.

>


Hi Michael,


Just to add a counterpoint to Sohrab's comments, I'm not personally against

frames and am pretty proud of the work I did on


http://www.nassmc.org


But I admit the frames were problematic.  We had to create 2 separate

framesets for NN and IE--the 2 browsers just refused to align the graphics

using the same pixel dimensions (isn't that just absurd?).  JavaScript

sniffs the browser and writes 2 separate framesets depending on what it

reads.  And the frameset is housed in a crippled browser window; we just

couldn't get it to align in the main window. So yeah, there were problems.


On the plus side, though, housing all that content in frames has allowed

the client to maintain the site by just updating web pages and not touching

Flash (this was part of the contract).  The frameset allows the text to

scroll.  And it looks good!  So you be the judge.


Good luck!




Hal Medrano

New Media Group

U S WEST Creative Services


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