Curious as to how many #webdev #webdesign #UX folks worked on HTML frame-based (<frameset> makes me giggle now) sites back in the day. Or even now! 🤣 The Web Mistakes Confessional is now open ⏳

Feb 15, 2021 · 8:56 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I'm still having to deal with them on client sites. 😒
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Legacy issues are disconcerting as there seems no historic data as to the benefits and risks. What do you do when faced with an existing site like that now?
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Replying to @mholzschlag
I remember frames, and a dreadful thing they were, but don't think I used them much. Tables, though--I was guilty of that one for a number of years.
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Dreadful but interesting and useful in many cases. As for table guilt, we must stop that. It was what we had and it did progress web layouts - it was more the incessant nesting and presentation that made them problematic IMO. :)
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Replying to @mholzschlag
My sins were of a noncoding, Adobe Golive-using nature. Until 2007, of course, when I started learning properly. Now I’m all Carrie Nation with an axe, Granny Clampett with the shotgun: Design happens in the browser, mostly in vanilla CSS. (After basic color/type/etc decisions)
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I used vi. Emacs fanatics couldn't change that :) Of HTMLL editors, HotMetal first, went to Hot Dog, found and adored Homesite (Win as I contracted for MSN). Notepad, TextEdit, Visual Studio Code now, which I like a lot. Blogging? Wordpress despite #a11y issues. Personal loyalty.
Replying to @mholzschlag @JaswinderVirdee
frameset for life
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LOL! Now that should be a t-shirt ;-)
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Replying to @mholzschlag
Been there, done that! Still online [de]: klaus-kinski.de/default.htm
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Awesome cool that is really fun some folks are sending some things they have done. I have my old school frames tables Etc and presentations all are on zip drives in a storage locker. My Zip drive cables are all non USB. Time flies for sure! funny and I needed that laugh so thxu
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