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Foil 46 Role of Frames in JavaScript

From Feb 17/19 Delivered Lecture for Course CPS616 -- aJavaScript Language Objects and Frames CPS616 spring 1997 -- Feb 17 and 19 1997. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
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Frames are very relevant to JavaScript because not only can JavaScript help the various frames talk to each other but also one sometimes needs dummy frames to preserve JavaScript between pages
In Java AWT we learnt about hierarchical layout schemes -- in Netscape 2.0 world the containers in which subcomponents are laid out are frames and forms within frames.
  • In Layout Manager language, Netsape uses HTML syntax to control layout
  • HTML is more powerful than mechanisms in AWT Layout Managers?
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