Re: Netscape's failed interactive-frames homepage

Brian Behlendorf (brian@organic.com)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 16:04:49 -0800 (PST)


Note that netscape's home page has stopped using frames. I wonder what
led to that... they're not known for discontinuing "experiments" no
matter how bad they are.

Brian

On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Rohit Khare wrote:
> OmniWeb is a NeXTStep browser that does frames correctly :-)
>
> Rohit
>
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> Netscape has made their home page so that you need either to not understand
> frames or to understand Javascript to read it.
>
> Basically, their home page contains the following: "<frameset></frameset>",
> which tells OmniWeb "I'm a frame document, but I contain nothing."
>
> Then, in JavaScript, they create the frames.
>
> Nice going, guys. You might try complaining to them. They've basically
> gotten to the point where they don't care about their pages being readable by
> anything but Netscape 2.0.
>
> -WIl
>

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