RE: Including content of one file of HTML in another?

[Paul Newbold <paul -dot- newbold -at- lightworkdesign -dot- com>]

Browsers can handle frames that's true, but there are still many drawbacks
to them, e.g.:

1. It can be difficult to email a page's url to a friend as the frameset's
url gets sent instead
2. For the same reason it can be difficult to bookmark an individual page in
a framed site
2. Many search engines can't get further than the frameset (so your site
doesn't get spidered)see
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/frames.html
3. They can cause printing problems 

They can make it easy to navigate and present data though so I suppose
whether or not you use them depends upon your particular needs. A good
source of discussion is the excellant
http://usableweb.com/topics/000515-0-0.html .

Hope this helps.

Paul Newbold
LightWork Design
Sheffield, UK.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peggy Richardson of mer-it.com [mailto:techwrl -at- mer-it -dot- com]
Sent: 19 December 2001 20:53
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Including content of one file of HTML in another?


See below...
At 12:18 PM 12/19/01 -0800, John Posada wrote:
>Hate to say this, but Front Page does this well with no templates, Create 
>a paage called NavTop.htm and NavSide.htm. These are the navigation bar 
>that you'd like to include on each page. NavTop is in horizontal format 
>for along the top or bottom of the page and NavSide is in vertical format.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just what a frame is? There was an 
earlier post referring to frames as a negative. I'm not sure I understand 
why, as most browsers have been frame compatible for a couple of versions 
(at least) by now. Am I missing something?
Constructive criticism welcomed,
-Peggy


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