Re: A proposal for addition to HTML 3.0: Frames

From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
Sender: Joe English <joe@trystero.art.com>

Forwarded at author's request; -JE

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From:           lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
Date:           Fri, 22 Sep 1995 20:48:48 +0100
To:             joe@trystero.art.com
Subject:        Re: A proposal for addition to HTML 3.0: Frames
In-Reply-To: 	<9509221905.AA22408@trystero.art.com>


> A new document type with it's own PUBLIC identifier
> is definitely a good idea, but I don't think a new 
> media type is.

I disagree, see below
> 
> FRAMES documents are (or at least can be made to be)
> compatible with level 2 browsers; the <NOFRAMES> element

requires that the new document type includes the whole 
HTML 2.0 body content for the NOFRAMES element, or (worse) 
has to track HTML 2.x as it evolves.

> Labelling FRAMES documents as something other than 'text/html' [*]
> would defeat this entirely.

No. As I showed several days ago, wrapping these up as a 
multipart/alternative is a workable solution *now* . Did 
you catch that posting, Joe?

>     [*] Or 'text/html; features="frames"' or whatever the
>     content-negotiation format is this week :-)

grin

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