Re: You've been framed :-)

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA" <ukha@b...> wrote:
> Actually thats just highly irrelavant. You are talking about top 10
> sites, if 10 out of (say) 100 million (or even 500 out of 100
> million) say something is good does that make it true? They are not
> leading web pages for any other reason than they offer
> services/product that people want not because they don't use frames
> or conform to any number of best practices found in a single
> volume.

I disagree. They are the top 10 web sites because of two things:

1: The offer useful content

2: They make it sufficiently easy to get at that content that people
bother coming back AND recommend them to other people

> If they all suddenly started using frames they'd probably still be
> in the top 10.

Well, that may be true, but it may not. The fact remains, however,
that the world's top 10 websites, having spent much effort in
understanding HCI, have ALL come to the same conclusion - that frames
are not the way to go! (Which was, after all, where we started.)

> I'd like to see what this 'seminal book' says about that. [popups]

Well - it's kind of interesting how you have assumed that the book
can't be good, simply because I've tried to summarise a few of the
points in a single message... I suggest that, before you criticise
it, you actually read it :-)

> IMHO popups are the spawn of satan.

Agree there.