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 ⏳
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I remember building a set of help files that were entirely based on frame sets. Even spotted a similar approach on an audit I did last year.
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Replying to @lloydi
They had their uses indeed. And are still in use from what folks are saying despite #CSS and related replacing them. What was your response when found on audit? Frames could be carefully designed to be relatively accessible and contain unframed content too :)

Feb 22, 2021 · 9:55 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
If I remember correctly, despite being anachronistic, they were relatively easy to use (all frames titled, could jump from pane to pane). Sometimes recreating frameset-like content using CSS for layout and dynamic page updates creates its own set of problems.
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Indeed. And if you recall, sandbox play during frame heavy years brought about some very compelling visual results. I remember as soon as we could hide frame chrome, all kinds of wild experiments took off :)