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grug remember ancestor used frames
then UX shaman said frame bad all sour faced frame ugly they said, multiple scrollbar bad
then 20 years later people use fancy js to emulate frames grug remember ancestor was right
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
Classic frames were quite bad. Every frame on a page was a separate, independent, coequal instance of the browser engine. This is almost never what you actually want. The header/footer/sidebar frames are subordinate and should not navigate freely. Bookmarks should return me to the frameset state as I left it, not the default for that URL. History should contain the frameset state I saw, not separate entries for each individual frame.
Even with these problems, classic frames might have been salvageable, but nobody bothered to fix them.