361492 - Frames support

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Ricardo Almeida]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Composer should support frames. I believe it even should include "models" of some framesets for people to use, but at least it shouldn't remove the code made by hand...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start a new web page in Source mode
2.Remove the body and put a frameset
3.Put in Normal mode

Actual Results:  
Frameset is removed and replaced with an empty body

Expected Results:  
Frameset isn't removed and show the frames within the page

I've put the severity in major as user data is lost...

Comment 1

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

We're not going to support frames. frames are evil. Old issue resolved forever.

Comment 2

[Ricardo Almeida]

I can understand a decision to not support frames. But I also believe that erasing user code is a bad option.
Since you don't wanna support frames a midterm solution would be not allow the user to go to normal mode if a page has frames, showing him a message like: "Frames are not supported. Pages with frames can only be edited in Source mode"