Introduction to Frames
Netscape introduced the idea of frames way back when it released Netscape Navigator 2.0. At the same time, Netscape proposed frames to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for inclusion in the HTML 3.0 standard. When the HTML 3.2 draft was released, frames were not part of the standard, but W3C indicated it was still considering other proposals that were put forward for HTML 3.0. When it released the HTML 4.0 specification, the W3C included the frame tags as proposed by Netscape, along with a few new twists that Microsoft and other W3C members threw in. Frames have also made the crossover to XHTML as well, so you can continue to implement documents inside a frameset, rather than just the standard browser window.
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