How to disable frames in a browser 4224

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Michael Black

Let's be clear on this. Lynx gives access both to the no-frames content and to the frames themselves.

It doesn't present the frames laid out *as* frames, but it sure gives access to them. Which produces rather silly results if the author's only idea of a no-frames text is something like "you can't view this site without frames".

"I cited a site - oh, what a sight".

Random diloveamples found by Google:

FRAME: leftnav FRAME: content

THIS SITE NEEDS FRAMES ENABLED BROWSERS TO BE VIEWED odietamo.net Internet and Multimedia solutions for businesses and individuals. A range of skills for your needs: website design, multimedia, photography, video, translations, tuitions plus useful links and downloads.

The "range of skills" seemingly doesn't include designing for graceful fallback. Bleagh.

EIPA Home page

This site needs frames

That one needs more than just frames! It looks as if the entire substantive content of the frameset is written using Javascript. Only the "meta" information, and the above rudeness, are actually present in the HTML itself. Hopeless, pointless, and probably in violation of mandatory accessibility legislation in one of more of the EU member states to which the page is addressed.

f'ups narrowed