Re: UKNM: to the website designers out there

[kahlil garbo]

---Lee Atkinson <

L [dot] Atkinsonharleywest [dot] co [dot] uk

> wrote:

> My boss has just strolled in and said, " Right lads, from now on you

> aren't to use frames anymore because there is a backlash to using them

> within the industry"

> 

> and that was that.

> 

> any thoughts?


Frames are problematic for two reasons:


1. They take control of the browser window away from the user, which

is deviating from the original vision of HTML being a cross-platform

standard which could gracefully degrade - for example, for blind users

utilising text-to-braille or text-to-speech systems.


2. They cause problems in bookmarking and also cause problems for

robots that index sites for search engines.


IMHO, you'll see that high volume sites like news.com and Yahoo! don't

use frames and it doesn't seem to cause a problem. Frames are

something that should be used with discretion, rather like high

explosives or poison. There are sites like http://www.fray.com/ that

make a virtue out of using frames.


But a frames backlash? It's news to me.



Sajid Mohammed

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