Re: Help with proportional window sizing

message from Barry Koopersmith on 16 Jul 2004

Thank you for your response.

I don't like the look of the the floating menu (it is disconcerting to me).

Accessibility is of concern to me. Since 95% of web browsers used are
Internet Explorer and they handle frames, what did you mean by that? I
tested my frame webpages with IE v6.0 and Netscape v4.79 and v7.1 and it
works.

I am trying to accomplish a rectangle "box" design with the same menu
rectangle on every page in the lower left corner and the same flash
music player in the top right corner. There will be a different poster
image on each page in the upper left corner. The lower right corner
rectangle will be the only rectangle to have vertical scroll bars to
display the main information (text and images). With frames, I was able
to accomplish this (plus using the same menu frame and same music player
frame for every frame set so I don't need to include that code on every
page like the old design).

I want to create something similar to how this website looks:

http://www.spsounds.com

That website is not using frames (just tables) but they have a scrolling
section only in the lower right rectangle. Can please you tell me how
they are doing that or what would be my best approach for accomplishing
my goals?

Thanks for your assistance.

Gary White replied to Barry Koopersmith on 16 Jul 2004

It is using an IFRAME:

<iframe src="newcalendar.html" name="calendar" id="news" width="400"
height="450" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0" marginheight="6"
marginwidth="6"></iframe>

Note that IFRAMEs do NOT work in NN4.x or other browsers older than that.
They DO still suffer from all the other issues that frames do.

Gary

terry replied to Barry Koopersmith on 17 Jul 2004

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Without getting onto the accessibility soapbox could you please let me have
a link to your source of information regarding browser usage and
percentages. That would be very useful to me.

Will email you later with info on the use of iframes.

Terry

Barry Koopersmith replied to terry on 17 Jul 2004

This is the link where I found the web browser type usage statistics
(from July 2003):

http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox23.html

Looking today, I found this link with statistics through July 2004:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

terry replied to Barry Koopersmith on 18 Jul 2004

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Hi Barry,

Thanks for links and email.

Regards

Terry .

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