At 00:39 08/01/2000 , you wrote:
>Frames were not part of the HTML 3.2 spec and were only introduced in 4.0,
>so how can they have been deprecated in 4.0. Please point me to part in the
>official spec where they are deprecated.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#version-info
This document states:
The HTML 4.01 Strict DTD includes all elements and attributes that have not
been deprecated or do not appear in frameset documents. For documents that
use this DTD, use this document type declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
The HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD includes everything in the strict DTD plus
deprecated elements and attributes (most of which concern visual
presentation). For documents that use this DTD, use this document type
declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
The HTML 4.01 Frameset DTD includes everything in the transitional DTD plus
frames as well. For documents that use this DTD, use this document type
declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/conform.html#deprecated
This document states:
DTD fragments in element definitions come from the strict document type
definition except for the elements related to frames.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/alist.html
This document allows you to filter out non-strict elements:
Unfiltered:
FIELDSET - Form control group
FONT - Font change
FORM - Interactive form
FRAME - Frame
FRAMESET - Frameset
H1 - Level-one heading
H2 - Level-two heading
H3 - Level-three heading
Filtered:
FIELDSET - Form control group
FORM - Interactive form
H1 - Level-one heading
H2 - Level-two heading
H3 - Level-three heading
I can't say for sure, but from the above, I must infer that frames are
deprecated.
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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