What is the difference between a “frame” in a word processor and a “frame” in a HTML document?
The differences are becoming less since word processors like Microsoft Word are doing away with word processing “frames” in their latest versions. In Word 97 there are no longer authoring options for frames like there were in earlier viersions of word (you now must use a combination of Picture inserts and text boxes instead of one easy to use frame insert). This is largely due to making word processors more like web authoring tools and the inability of HTML editors to covert word processing frames into HTML frames. In the past, a frame in a word processor file such as a Version 6 Microsoft Word DOC file is an embedded object in a document. That “frame” could hold text and graphics images such as pictures. Frames in this context were very useful for positioning frame contents on a printed page and resizing of pictures by simply clicking and dragging on the handle at the lower right corner of the frame. In a DOC file, frames can hold both text and images. A framing page (doucment) in HTM
