This means more than just text navigation bars. It includes displaying text desciptions of images so visitors can choose to load individual graphics and offering narrative alternatives to graphic content. In early 1997, tables still were too advanced for many browsers, but now any poor soul who wonders into the Web with Netscape 1.1 is woefully out of luck. Tables have become a standard HTML layout technique. Stylesheets hold great promise for advancing the layout of web pages, but currently are too browser specific.
Frames offer a way to manage navigation bars but in practice become cumbersome for users.
While they work better across browser brands, they still work only with the newest browsers. We are holding off on both these techniques for now. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.