Editing Frame (World Wide Web) (section)

==History==
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[[Netscape Navigator]] 2.0 introduced the elements used for frames in March 1996. Other browser vendors such as [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] with [[Cyberdog]] followed later that year.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/apple33.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817100726/http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/apple33.html|archive-date=17 August 2000|title=A Present From Apple: Cyberdog 2.0a1|access-date=14 April 2011|publisher=[[Internet.com]]|first=Dave|last=Garaffa|date=23 December 1996|url-status=dead}}</ref> At that time, Netscape proposed frames to the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) for inclusion in the HTML 3.0 standard.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030083252/http://docs.rinet.ru/HTMLnya/ch13.htm|archive-date=30 October 2007|url=http://docs.rinet.ru/HTMLnya/ch13.htm|title=Using HTML 3.2, Java 1.1, and CGI; Ch. 13, Frames|first=Eric|last=Ladd}}</ref><!-- original link (not working): http://web.archive.org/web/20071030083252/http://docs.rinet.ru/HTMLnya/ch13.htm -->

Frames were used to display and navigate early [[online magazine]]s and [[web apps]], such as [[webmail]] services and [[web chat]] sites. Frames had the advantage of allowing elements to be displayed sitewide without requiring server features such as [[server-side include]]s or [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] support. These features were not common on early web servers accessible to the public.

Early websites often used a frame at the top to display a banner which could not be scrolled away. These banner frames sometimes included the site's logo as well as [[Online advertising|advertising]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shafer|first=Dan|title=JavaScript & Netscape wizardry|year=1996|publisher=Coriolis Group Books|location=Scottsdale, AZ|isbn=978-1-883577-86-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/javascriptnetsca00shaf/page/31 31]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/javascriptnetsca00shaf/page/31}}</ref>

[[XHTML]] 1.1, the intended successor to HTML 4, removed all frames. [[XFrames]], the intended eventual replacement,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.w3.org/TR/xframes/ | title = XFrames working draft | publisher = W3C }}</ref> provided the composite [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URI]] to address a populated frameset.

The later [[HTML5]] standard removed framesets by means differing from XHTML.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ HTML5 differences from HTML4]: "The following elements are not in HTML5 because using them damages usability: frame, frameset, noframes"</ref> The <code>iframe</code> element remains with a number of "[[Sandbox (computer security)|sandboxing]]" options intended for sharing content between sites.<ref>[http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ HTML5 differences from HTML4]: "The iframe element has new attributes called sandbox and srcdoc which allow for sandboxing content, e.g. blog comments."</ref>