Well, if you think that negates the need for framesets, then that's your prerogative.
You asked why use them at all if you're not opening a document within the frameset. I'm just saying they have a use in defining the Notes client UI for many of my apps, but that's as far as I go with them. I don't like opening documents within frames, and find framesets a burden (keep in mind that at work we're still coding to a base version of 5.05, and as we know there are
many frameset-related bugs there).
Returning to the need for framesets, of course I could use the "old" navigator and view method, but I find navigators a royal pain in the @rse, and they're effectively "deprecated" now in any case.
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