Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> tm wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>>>> This site uses both embedded music and frames. Please ignore those
>>>> issues for my question, if you will, because my question isn't
>>>> about those things, which I, too, dislike. (It's especially
>>>> hateful on my dialup. <g>)
>>>> http://www.crystalbernard.com/Cphotos/
>>> Interesting website. What was your question again?
>>>> Scroll top frame so you can select "Other Photos", and do so.
>>> That's somewhere east of 'whitelace'? Wait...
> *LOL* What are you doing to us? We are trying to get some work done...
:) I always like that actress on a particular sitcom, and discovered,
today, that she also had a singing career. Investigating that, I found
that site. My favorite images were 11 and 20, because together they
nicely show two quite contrasting sides.
>>>> Is the use of a form to make this little image viewer a horrible
>>>> thing, as I suspect -- use of something for X that's intended for
>>>> Y? I'm not hip to forms, and my impression of them is that they're
>>>> for user's submission of data. But this little "slide viewer"
>>>> isn't code heavy and it does work nicely (once the images are
>>>> loaded).
>>> Who cares, it works, right? Why get caught up in html
>>> technicalities?
>> I do. That's why I asked. Muggings work, too, but that doesn't mean
>> they're a good thing. Oh, that's a technicality, right?
> Regarding technicalities, forms will consume more resources so they
> are not the ideal way of handling this task. Certain
> borwsers/devices(platforms) might not support them either, so it is a
> loss.
> When I first entered the site I did not realise it was implemented
> using forms. I actually had my mind focused on something else so don't
> worry about "view source". Since you don't deliver 'techie' news here
> (and considering the nature of the site), it will probably have 90%+
> IE6 users. So, I wouldn't worry.
Thanks for the input, and for that input being more than a simplistic
knee-jerk reaction. I've not an immediate need for such; this was just
- good or bad - something that caught my eye. The code, I mean. :)
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