I already had to do app like functionality in the enterprise space, so writing out framesets in popup windows based on calculated information was common. Some of the JS had so many "parent." it felt like navigating a huge harddrive on console using "cd .."

👋 I used frames for the first websites I built, but then quickly moved to tables. That was back in the early 2000s. I’m not ashamed of it because it was what we had back then. And building websites with tables back then is kinda helpful building HTML newsletters now.

I’ve built a frameset 2 days ago: bittersmann.de/cssbattle/col… XHTML 1.0 Frameset, of course. 🤣

One of the first article I wrote about web dev was a 10 pages tutorial about frames and framesets. After ~20 years I can still find some reference to it :) dmxzone.com/go/732/frames-so…

Frames paid my rent lol

With some finesse, that model had some merit. Frames brought interesting times and still exist despite having better approaches now overall. We did this with tables too for sidbar navigation :)

Yes! And inline frames drove advertising and other aspects that grew new ideas about layout and 'restful' (if you will) approaches prior to 2000!

They were legit to use at the time, and making mistakes is how we learn after all, if we continue to advance our skills to more contemporary, accessible approaches as they were implemented.