Re: When is it appropriate to use HTML frames?

["Nathan M. Andelin" <nathanma@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Anyway, I summarized, and there are a couple other gotchas
>associated with using frames

I guess I'll share one "gotcha" that affected me and a team I worked with.
The site was hosted on a Win NT box.  The webmaster used a "top" frame for a
header, "left" frame for site navigation, and a "content" frame for the
majority of information presented.  I wrote an AS/400 based CGI program that
delivered dynamic content to the "content" frame.

This was part of a web based hotel reservation application which eventually
prompted the user for a credit card number.  Although the content frame was
delivered via an HTTPS (secure) connection on the AS/400, the little
security icon that shows up in the browser was not activated because the
left and top frames were previously sent via a non-secure connection with
IIS on the NT box.

Several customers expressed their concern about putting in a credit card
number on a form where the browser security icon was not activated.  They
were led to believe the connection was not secure.




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