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."

Comments

Re:Feature?

[Presto Vivace]

Content creators don't like it.

Re:Maybe it was bad back in 1996

[abigsmurf]

BTW is capitalised, it should be a comma instead of a full stop before the "when", "it's" should be capitalised and the quote should be following a colon or be in a new paragraph.

Golden rule : don't pick on other people's grammar unless yours is spotless. Liek mine is/

Re:Feature?

[emurphy42]

I thought "wtf?" until I got to this comment - basically the Digg frame was interfering with the site getting proper credit for the ads it loads from off-site.