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

[Michael Dunn]

on 6/8/00 1.27p, Hal Medrano wrote:


> 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


First of all, good work, very clean and easy to navigate (and for the option

to view without flash!)


> 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.


I wanted the content centered at all times. My first try was to use frames

that would resize dynamically keeping the center frame (at fixed size) in

the center. I'm going to try this with table shortly.


> 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.


Anyone know if it's possible to have the text scroll in a table? (Or a

series of tables scroll within an enclosing table?) Or is it best/only

option to use frames?


Thanks.



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