Before IE, there were at least two smaller browser “skirmishes”, and this was one of them. One before it was with Mosaic and inline image support, which most browsers did not have at the time (only links to view/download.)
In these cases you just added a frame and you could click through content and the navigation would stay in place.
...but then, like always, people went overboard and pages started to have 42 frames within frames within frames and it made everything painful.
This forum thread from 25 years ago that came up near the top when I searched for frame hate was a fun window into a different time with many expressing just why and how much they hated frames:
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/why-do-people-hate-htm...
Happily surprised to see that the page linked towards the end of the thread, last modified in 1997, is still online: https://www.htmlhelp.org/design/frames/whatswrong.html
More nostalgia I suppose!
[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/140100/why-has-8831-b...
Ah here, 80x15 badges: https://web.badges.world
I think those were popular a bit later than the 88x31 ones.
2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34465455 (45 comments)
2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27500624 (124 comments)
with( document.documentElement.style ){
transformOrigin = '0 0';
imageRendering = 'pixelated';
scale = 1 / devicePixelRatio * 4;
}I cut my teeth building sites with Dreamweaver back in the day and still am sore about Adobe letting it wither on the vine after the acquisition.
I'll wait until I switch to my private computer to dive into it more :)
A truly marvelous collection.
