Blinky the Shark wrote:
> tm wrote:
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>> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
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>>> 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...
>>> 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.
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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