[WEB4LIB] Re: XHTML Example

[Guy Teasdale]

Both of you are right! Netscape *is* behaving correctly
I don't really like the framed pages but this "inline framing" possibility
is cool. I didn't know the <iframe> element and I think that it is a
effectively a much better solution to use this element instead of <table>



At 10:30 00-04-17 -0700, Michael Sauers wrote:
>> anyway Netscape 4.7 can't handle this iframe element correctly. This is a
>> (small) problem. ;-)
>
>Well, it is handling it properly by displaying the enclosed text/link
>instead.
>
>The whole idea was to not use tables for layout (which I still do at the
>bottom). A lot of this is not the same in older browsers, but overall it
>still works, and that was my goal.

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>Displaying the Search link *is* correct handling for a browser that
>doesn't understand IFRAME.  At some point, we need to start tagging to the
>current spec and rely on it degrading gracefully on browsers whose
>standard support is several years out of date.  IFRAME has that built in,
>as has XHTML as a whole.


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