[Jmol-users] Re: I still like Frames best..etc.

[Phillip B. <pw...@fa...>]

From: timothy driscoll <mol...@ma...>
Date: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:42 am
> >Question: Are iframes "out" in the "frameless" model?
> 
> neither iframes nor frames are depricated or obsolete, even in the 
> XHTML 1.0 spec (which is what I try to use for validation).  so I 
> second David in that there is nothing inherently bad about them.  
> they just aren't as flexible as divs IMHO.

I have run into a problem using Safari on my site that seems to have a
frames issue associated with it. 

At http://virtual-museum.soils.wisc.edu , we note the general behavior
with Safari (several different machines, w/ updates installed) that they
load up any of the displays (constructed with frames, w/o using Jmol.js)
and the javascript buttons from the frames are active in Jmol, but when
going back to the index page and then loading a different display, the
Jmol visualization looks fine and interacts with the mouse just fine but
the javascript buttons fail to have any effect. To clear this behavior,
Safari must be shut down and then the display on which it failed is
fully functional, provided that it is the first Jmol display invoked.
This behavior is unlike that on Mozilla and IE on XP, etc., where the
site works fine, and I don't get any messages from Mozilla's javascript
console that indicate a javascript error. Could this be another
Safari/LiveConnect bug related to frames?

--Phil Barak