[Rafe]

What are your opinions about why frames are so �bad�?

Why do you think they should be done away with?

[TheMajor]

It depends. Sometimes frames are useful.

[Rafe]

Originally posted by TheMajor
It depends. Sometimes frames are useful.

Sure, but I mean, why are there so many people against frames?

The reason I ask is because I am going to be up-dating my site and if the general public don't like frames, then I am going to have to switch to tables. But I don't want to unless there is an actual reason, rather than just peoples opinion.

[TheMajor]

I think frames are cool.

[Rafe]

hmmmm. Thank's.
I just can't justify the fact that I am going to have to have things like the navigation bar typed into EVER SINGLE page just so that the site will correct on some imac or something.
-no offence to imac users of corse-

[TheMajor]

That's one of the major advantage of frames.

[Nyper]

Rafe, if you look hard enough, you can find a way to include the navigation bar without having to type it into every single page. ColdFusion makes this especially easy, and it's probably not too hard in asp.net or something similar. I know javascript has an include function, but you can't include pure html as far as I know. There is definitely no need to have to include the navigation bar on every single page. What if you need to change it? Do you want to go change every page? If nothing else, set the bar up in a database and query it from every page. That way, if you need to change it, you only change 1 file.