Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback
theodp writes “The WSJ reports that the controversial practice of framing seems to be making a comeback on the Web. Big sites like Digg, Facebook, Ask.com and StumbleUpon have all begun framing links recently, joining the likes of Google, which employs the technique for Image Search. Long ago, Jakob Nielsen argued that ‘frames break the fundamental user model of the web page,’ but, today’s practitioners contend, ‘it’s a feature, not a bug,’ and say it provides publishers with massive distribution they wouldn’t otherwise have.”
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