[thelist] Fwd: Frames vs Divs

[Mohsen Saboorian]

On 6/29/06, Bernardo Escalona-Espinosa <escalonab at gmail.com> wrote:
> My question is: shouldn't the loading time be around the same, since
> the machine will cache the "heavy" content (images etc) in the divs
> that remain the same anyway? Is the loading time actually around the
> same for frames and divs and I am just imagining things? Is there any
> real advantage in using frames over div? Is it worth even mentioning
> frames these days?
I'm not sure about the loading time, but I think the loading time of a
frame can be smaller that a whole page, even if the heavy contents are
cached.
Frames (specially inner frames) can be so useful for in a number of
aspects. See for example the gmail UI. It uses more that 10 "iframe"s
for chat, implicit file upload, refreshing and so on.