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by JasonFruit 1672 days ago
My contrarian take for the day: I liked frames. It was a nice built-in way to provide consistent site-level navigation and context when your styling options were otherwise pretty limited. The only problem was when it broke navigation outside the site, which was a pretty bad design decision and took a lot of self-discipline to prevent.
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I'm on the fence about frames. From one side, it annoyingly broke navigation, opening in new tab, etc. But on the other hand it allowed to open just the content itself without navigation elements, allowing for eg. easy printing.

(and navigation could be fixed by browsers, maybe by encoding currently active frame targets into url after #)