On Aug 19, 11:13=EF=BF=BDam, Jim Thompson
On my Firefox (v2.00.16) the "frames" overlap and blank-out portions
> of other panels.
> Any idea what he did wrong, so I can tell him politely?
Politely, you could mention that frames have some disadvantages.
1 - They can be hard to navigate 2 - Their scroll bars can hog precious real estate 3 - They can be hard to get indexed in search engines 4 - Once indexed, can appear independently without benefit of their surrounding and supporting frames 5 - Better to embed content using fixed positioning and the use of OBJECT elements. (per W3C)Most likely, your friend has set the noresize in the frame tag to zero. (Or has set the border width in the border tag to zero). Either way, visitors won't be able to resize the frames - which (sight unseen - no pun intended) would seem like reasonable solutions to the problem.
Also, in Explorer 5, if you set the border width to less than 5, the border disappears and visitors won't be able re-size them (regardless of the noresize attribute). Not sure if that is the same for Firefox, as I don't use it that much. It is not a problem in IE-6.
You could also introduce your friend to CSS? Obviously, with fixed- position layouts.
-mpm