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Frames are still used as underlying microfrontend technology with surprising success. Theory available at https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html

• rezonant 3y ago
  That's iframes. There is an older, even more archaic spell that lets you do iframes, but not inline. Those are, as we all know, superior.
  • susam 3y ago
    Yes! Those were made with the now obsolete <frameset> tag. An example here: https://www.quackit.com/html/html_4/tags/html_frameset_tag.cfm https://www.quackit.com/html/html_4/tags/html_frameset_tag.c... In fact, I used them too around 2001 or so for my website when I did not enough programming/scripting to add a common layout to all content pages. That's how I originally implemented a two column layout: a narrow frame on the left for navigation links and a wide one on the right for content. I don't do it anymore, of course. I do know how to program now and generate my HTML website using a tiny Common Lisp program that adds common headers and footers to all my web pages.
    • rezonant 3y ago
      We've come so far. Using a language from the 60s to write markup in a language from the 90s all so we can feel good by avoiding writing imperative code in another language from the 90s. Seriously though, why can HTML not have a client side include?
      • colanderman 3y ago
        You can do client-side include with XSLT, which (surprisingly!) all major browsers support.
      • lelanthran 3y ago
        Thankfully you can do it now in a custom elements. I used one, I assumed everybody else would have one by now, too