Inspiring

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Frames?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
July 11, 2018
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Remember me? After nearly 2 years away from the forum, I have returned with a "burning" question and am please to see many familiar "faces" still populating this space! Hello, everyone!

My client from way back has approached me with a question as to why the home page of his site is no longer responsive (for me, both FF and Chrome show it to work fine in their responsive display). Well, I haven't touched this site in some time as the owner has been able to make his own changes, but now when I look at the page source I see lots of strange stuff.

For example, when I open any page from this domain in the browser's web developer tool, I can see that all pages are embedded in a frameset. WHAAAAT? Is this some new technique I have missed in the intervening two years? I'm wondering if that could be part of the responsive problem.

Anyone have a clue?

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TheBCMan

Participating Frequently

Frames will continue to work in any browser that supports HTML v2-4... i.e. most browsers. There are clear benefits to building in HTML5 but websites are not going to suddenly stop working if they were build in HTML 3 for example.

Regarding your issue, you might have fixed it but no frames here, just a 302 redirect to the index.html file.

MurraySummersAuthor

Inspiring

Yes - that is what breaks me out of the frameset. When I link directly to index.html (using the 302 redirect), the server cannot wrap the page in that frameset. This fixes my issue.

(Edited) Should I make that a 301 redirect instead? Or is there another code that would be more appropriate for the redirect?

TheBCMan

Participating Frequently

Why is the server wrapping it in a frame in the first place? Is it some sort of free server that injects ads? No server should do that unless it's part of the service (or is malware).

ALsp

Legend

These articles/posts might be helpful:

why does my website appear inside a <frameset>? - Stack Overflow

Hi Murray. Seems like old times

MurraySummersAuthor

Inspiring

Hi, Al! Thanks for the reply - I'll check your link right away. I would say the same - this place seems very comfortable to me.

BenPleysier

Community Expert

I think I remember, aren't you the owner of the scooter that had an altercation with a 4-wheeled vehicle? The friend of a certain Al Sparber of PVII? Great to see you Muz.

On topic, +1 for Paula's answer (the link that is).

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MurraySummersAuthor

Inspiring

Yes, definitely. Great to see you are still plugging here, Ben! Are you still a benevolent grandpop?

BenPleysier

Community Expert

To be successful in this game, one needs to be benevolent otherwise lose your client to WP operators . Just joking.

Wappler is the DMXzone-made Dreamweaver replacement and includes the best of their powerful extensions, as well as much more!

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osgood_

Legend

Yeah remember you well Murray, youre close in my thoughts regularly and l often refer to you as the person who contrubuted a lot to this forum and its child forum and someone l personally learned a considerable amount from. I observed some months ago you had shut your company down for whatever reason.

As for your current issue off the top of my head l have no idea....maybe WP plugin related. I know you produced some websites in that in your twilight years but its just a wild guess

MurraySummersAuthor

Inspiring

Os, I definitely became a WP afficianado in the last several years of my 'operation' but I closed my business in January of this year and retired/retired (before that I was 'retired/self employed'). This particular site, though, is about as far from a WP site as you can get!

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osgood_

Legend

Ok not WP related but good for you, hope you are enjoying retirement! Sounds good to me.

pziecina

Legend

First a big welcome back Murray .

Frames, (as you know deprecated in html5) were often given a set size, so it may be worth looking in the html or css for a width. Also check the frame content for anything such as images that have also been given a width/height.

To quote you though, 'a link to the site, would be helpfull'.