[thelist] How excusable is the use of frames?

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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The longer versions of all the below is that popups, flash, scrolling
and long downloads have negative impacts on the usability of the
sites which contain them.

Therefore, the position is that they should only be used where there
are explicitly identified benefits which outweigh those issues.

It's a case by case analysis, but the default is "don't use them"

Martin




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>It's just that the "frames are no good" call seems to have become a dogma,
>and I don't like dogma's.

Me neither. Other dodgy dogma's:

- popups are bad
- flash is bad
- people don't like to scroll
- long download times are bad

But still, most of the time for many sites the above are good rules of
thumb. It's just that it's all more complex than that.



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