If you think frames are bad now, wait until you read this little nugget from 10 years ago.
Frames break the unified model of the Web and introduce a new way of looking at data that has not been well integrated into the other aspects of the Web. With frames, the user’s view of information on the screen is now determined by a sequence of navigation actions rather than a single navigation action. Navigation does not work with frames since the unit of navigation is different from the unit of view. If users create a bookmark in their browser they may not get the same view back when they follow the bookmark at a later date since the bookmark doesn’t include a representation of the state of the frames on the page. Even worse, URLs stop working: the addressing information shown at the top of the browser no longer constitutes a complete specification of the information shown in the window. If an author copies the URL in order to include it as a hypertext anchor in one of his or her own pages then that anchor will not lead readers to the desired view but to the initial state of the frameset. Similarly, if a user decides to send an email message to a friend with the recommendation to check out a page, then copying the URL from the browser will not work if frames are used since the URL points to the frameset and not to the current view (with the information of interest to the friend). Given that social filtering is one of the most powerful mechanisms for information discovery on the Internet, it is an utter disaster to disable the URL as an addressing mechanism.
I think I’ve discussed this before. It’s just funny to read something like this that was written 10 years ago. And, yes, frames were bad back then too.
[ Why Frames Suck (Most of the time) ] useit.com
This one has been bugging me for quite a while. I was reminded when I saw a link someplace trying to get people to help BritBrit.
Why?
When Anna Nicole Smith died, why did we have to hear anything else after that?
Do we care that Britney is, again, in rehab out of rehab in rehab out of rehab?
When any celebrity gets into some kind of trouble, does anyone really care?
If I were to go into rehab would it make national TV coverage? What if I shaved my head? What if I got a DUI or a parking ticket? Shopped at the Gap?
Just because they are celebrities, does not make it news. That’s all I’m sayin’. Sure, let us know when they have a birthday, get married or die because I know people like that. But you can skip all the rest of it. Mostly because I just don’t care.
Holy crap, I say! Hooooly crap.
Just doin’ some recon on the logs of late.
you w(t)f readers can be proud. Looks like I’m up to well over 17 readers. According to the logs, about 700 of you and your unique IP addresses stopped by last month. Not bad, not bad at all. Be sure to tell your friends.
If you are also a dbmini reader, you can count yourself among the over 2k readers there. WOW [insert wow smiley guy here]
If you also happen to be one that listens to the podcast, turn around and say to the over 5k of you that visit that site!
Not even going to take a guess at how many people read what I type over there. I know it’s quite a few.
So, yes, today I realized that there is a good chance more than 10K people, over the course of a month, read the words that come out of my brain, through my arms and into my fingers, where I 60wpm-type them out into the little Wordpress box.
I’m not bragging or anything. I just find it amazing.
Keep in mind this all started back in September of ‘02 with a crappy little Blogger blog that was a mix of MINI stuff and ‘personal’ blog faire. Maybe 500 uniques there a month when I started. MAYBE.
Then I split things up. During it’s peak, dbmini was experiencing close to 4K uniques a month, with it’s highest at close to 5K.
Then I started this little site. I had over 1K uniques once, but I couldn’t read the logs through all the spam.
Then I started the podcast. it’s grown faster than I ever could have imagined, which is nice.
Then I started posting at Motoringfile. Nothing great (yet), but people still read and comment on the posts I put up.
Like I said, I’m not bragging. But I will take this time to say thank you. All of you that read this also read the others and most of you listen to the podcast. I’m pleased you find my work enjoyable enough to return on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
Ok, warm fuzzies are over. Thanks for reading!
It has come to the attention of w(t)f that you are teh suck.
I realize that your company has to justify the cost of:
- The multiple MSDS subscriptions
- The extra ink for your business cards with all those MS certs after your name
- The cases of Mt. Dew/Red Bull/Bawls or whatever noxitious drink that is in the kitchen
Not to mention your salary.
So, please, do your job justice and try a few things out.
First, don’t create an app that requires a user to have domain priveleges higher than a domain user.
Second, don’t create an app that requires a user to have domain priveleges of power user or higher, then make that app require the use of Internet Explorer.
Third, don’t create an app that requires folder security to be changed in anyway.
Fourth, don’t create an app that doesn’t work for all users on a desktop machine that is part of a domain.
Fifth, don’t assume that the small business you are dealing with (less than 10 employees in the corporate office) have a computer guy. You gotta make this stuff work just like you would if you were creating it for you mom.
Sixth, and finally, don’t create an app with cryptic error messages that your support staff won’t be able to decode or figure out without your intervention.
Y’all are creating some really great programs out there. And your employer is charging a pretty penny for these applications as well.
I’m just saying, take the extra minute and make the applications just a little bit better/easier to install/stupid proof.
The rest of the small businesses that you will be selling your applications too are thanking you in advanced.
Sincerely,
w(t)f
For those of that wondered what happened to w(t)f over the last 12 hours…
- jSchwa alerted me to a gotta-do upgrade for WP (for those of you running 2.1, you should too).
- Cruised to wordpress.org to get the latest.
- unzipped the latest
- deleted all the badness that was wp2.1
- went to upload the goodness that is wp2.1.2
- ftp was broken
- contacted support
- Fell asleep watching the matrix. Man, I was tired too since it was loud enough to rattle the windows
- Went to bed
- Woke up at 4:30 to drive to CCRM
- Stopped in Barstow for some Del Taco and a bathroom break
- Stopped in Searchlight NV for a bathroom break
- Arrived at CCRM at about 9:45
- setup, checked in with Dad and the Motel manager, got some coffee
- Checked my email
- Replied to some offline IM’s
- Started the upgrade for the motel
- Twitter’d…twice
- Waiting for a database conversion to complete, downloaded 2.1.2 to the lappy
- unzipped wp
- uploaded missing parts
- Wrote this post
You know, for those of you that were wondering.
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