Chapter 13: Framing Pages

Links: Learning More About Frames

• W3C Frames Specification
  From the HTML 4.0 specification.
• Frames and Framesets
  From Netscape's HTML Tag Reference.
• Floating Frames, Step by Step
  Microsoft on the proprietary IFRAME tag.
• Webmonkey on Frames
  Very basics; basics revisited; targeting; non-frames browsers; changing two frames at once with JavaScript.
• Jumping Out the Window
  How to keep your pages out of other people's frames.
• I Like Frames
  A response to those who dismiss frames out of hand. Notice they offer a non-frames option.

Links: Some Sites That Do It Well

• The Gabby Cabby
  Nicholas Franklin was 16 when he made this site for his taxi-drivin' dad.
• Water
  A personal site that does incredible things with borderless frames as a layout and navigation tool.
  
• Cocktail
  Hotwired's drink mixing site. The targeting is a beauty in itself.
• The Fray: Behind the Bar
  This is a story I wrote for The Fray. Most of the other stories in the site use frames, and sometimes you don't even notice at first.
• The Punchline Server
  Part of Sorabji.com, which sometimes uses frames for other things.
• The Family Project
  A section from Entropy8.com, a personal site that takes a lot of design risks.
  

Links: Fun With Frames

• The Mondrian Machine
  Using frames and JavaScript to create Web pages that look like the Dutch artist's paintings.
• Mondrimat
  More fun with Mondrian's theories, applied with frames.
  
• Enigma
  A good demonstration of targeting and draggable frame borders.

Links: Why People Hate Frames

• Why Frames Suck
  A thoughtful article, rather than just a bunch of frames and a neener-neener.
• Frames Free Campaign
  People with too much time on their hands and an apparent lack of real problems.
• The Crash Site
  "I intend to crash your browser using frames."
• So You Like Frames?
  What not to do.