On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: >> I don't see how they wouldn't. Everything you can accomplish with >> <frameset> and <frame> you can do with <iframe> plus gobs of javascript to >> make the drag-resizing work (probably badly, unlike the UA-provided resizing >> for <frameset>), no? Oh, and more hacks to get the initial sizing right and >> such, of course... > > Ah, I didn't understand how navigation in iframes works. So why *are* > frames banned, if you can easily replace them with iframes and get the > exact same lousy behavior? Because iframes also have less evil uses, > and frames don't, I guess?
The big difference is that <iframe>s can be used in good ways, framesets essentially can't. Another reason do deprecate <frameset> but not <iframe> is that we don't need *two* ways to make poorly behaving pages. / Jonas
