Professor Nefarious' Home Page

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The Professor Nefarious Home Page

In which I, the great Professor Nefarious, refute the alleged legal scholarship, and expose the utter dorkiness, of my incompetent professorial rival, that buffoon Professor Stern. (Click on the picture of the great Professor Nefarious [viz., myself] above, to return to The George Washington University Law School, Computer Law 484, Webpage on ''Framing.'' Watch out, however, for the bufoonery of Prof. Stern, who may try to frame you within a frame (in saecula saeculorum caveat) if you use the back arrow. You may get non-self-referential results with the browser's 'Back' function.)

What This Hightech Web Page Does and How You Use It

I provide links to the writings of Professor Stern, which he has placed on the Internet for anyone to peruse. My comments in the large middle left frame are keyed to whatever portion of his text is shown in the large middle right frame.
How it works. You go to a reference to one of his writings in the list provided below in this frame. Click on one of the gray citation bars. That will bring the Prof. Stern writing that you clicked on to the screen in the larger middle right frame, just under this frame. At the same time, my comments on that particular bit of Prof. Stern's nonsense will appear in the larger middle left frame, facing his material just under this frame.
What I do in my frame is point out the mistakes in that part of his writing, his many errors and omissions, his many defects in legal analysis, and so on. It will be clear to you from my demonstration -- the virtual Annotated Professor Stern that I have compiled on this web page -- that you should buy my copyright book rather than his, and you should purchase legal consulting services from me rather than him. This web page shows the vast superiority of my book (and services) to his, so you would have to be OOYM (out of your mind) to purchase his work or services rather than mine after seeing this web site.

Click on one of bars shown below to bring one of Stern's inferior works into the larger frame below this one. See in the facing left frame my commentary refuting every point made in the framed Stern work. I've got him framed!

(Users of old browsers: to get a similar effect for the Netcom bar, click on the underlined words Stern and Nefarious. That will pull up the Stern comment in the righhthand frame and my refutation in the lefthand frame, respectively. But give yourself a break and download a newer free browser.)
More cite bars to come! Just wait! That's just a short example of my project. This frame of this page is still under construction. Keep tuned for a more efficient mode of operation (HTML 4.0 <IFRAME>s!!) and many more examples, real soon. But at least you've got an idea of how I've got, and am getting, Prof. Stern framed.

Obscure Tech Notes

For those of you who both are technically literate and may wonder how I can so readily correlate my incisive and perceptive remarks to the corresponding sections of Prof. Stern's specific texts, this is the answer. His text is littered with <A NAME=...> tags because he follows the usual convention of internally hyperlinking back and forth between his footnotes and the text to which they relate. This provides me the opportunity to link deeply here to his text at virtually any point of it, by A HREFing the A NAMEs of his HTMLs with an appropriate "#" tag.
For a slightly different technological approach to the same presentation issue, see the much earlier work of my colleague Professor Rashi; see also this similar example. They are discussed in an accompanying comment (start at third full paragraph of text on page). In the earlier work, hypertext materials are printed on the same page as, and around, the text to which they refer; this operates as hyperlinks do.

While I have used Javascript buttons and similar expedients above, which require user input to place my material on the user's page as I desire, Professor Rashi does not. He uses MS IE3 technology (which is proposed for adoption as part of HTML 4.0 ), which is not yet available on Netscape 3 or 4 and many other browsers. His approach is well illustrated, for the purposes of this explanation, by this web page . This technology permits Prof. Rashi, by using the <IFRAME> tag, to place anybody else's text into a "floating frame" anywhere on his page, and to juxtapose his text with it, as he pleases. No user interaction is required. It's just like using <IMG SRC=''...''> in your HTML document. Eat your heart out, Albuquerque A.R.T. and similar 17 U.S.C. sec. 106(2) wannabes! Just wait till I show you what I can do once I get my hands on the HTML 4.0 specifications for <IFRAME> technology . Even better, just wait till I can get some IFRAME code examples to copy. (See refs 1, 2, and 3.)