Re: Using frames advised?

Hi Eric,

Personally, I abhor frames because their inability to give me a direct
URL to the content I want. Professionally, I believe that there are some
accessibility issues with them as well.

FWIW, tables (or CSS-driven positioning) would be my choice....

Peg

Eric Fong said the following on 11/12/2004 10:53 AM:

> Hi all:
>
> I'm planning to do a make-over of our site and would like to use
> frames. However, I wasn't sure if this would be ok since (a long
> while ago) browsers might have had a problem using frames. Today,
> I'm not sure if it's a big deal anymore. I didn't know if they made a
> difference for visually-impaired web surfers using text-browsers but
> I'd like to know if anyone else used frames on their pages or not? I
> could just stick with tables, but I like to convenience of using
> frames. Opinions? Thanks.
>
> eric

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