History
Netscape Navigator 2.0 introduced the elements used for frames in March 1996. Other browser vendors such as Apple with Cyberdog followed later that year. At that time, Netscape proposed frames to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for inclusion in the HTML 3.0 standard.
Framing was used to display and navigate early web apps and online magazines.
Early websites often used a frame at the top to display a banner which could not be scrolled away. These banner frames included the site's logo as well as advertising.
In late 2011 frame-like user interface features began appearing on various well maintained websites. As part of a major change to the look and feel of Google's products, separate scrolling bars for chat and mail windows in Gmail as well as search style bars that stick to the top of the screen for Google books. Pandora changed their music player to one that has a separate frame at the top of the screen showing the basic player buttons and information about the song. These interfaces are built using CSS3 and HTML5 technology, not the old frameset tags.
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