Frames--What's the big deal?

[Karl Fattig]

While I do agree that HTML standards are important, so are innovators. I
hope more people will continue to develop USEFUL applications of frames and
framed environments. Especially database vendors.

One of the most annoying things I hear about the WWW is that there is often
no context to a page or a set of pages. Frames are another tool for
contributing to the contextuality of hypertext. Are they appropriate for
every application? No. The same way preformatted text isn't. 

Karl Fattig
kfattig at polar.bowdoin.edu