HTML: To Frame or not to Frame

Dan Burns asks: "I work in a large firm and manage the website there and our website uses Frames for navigation and a scrolling news ticker. A consultant has been hired to develop an add on to the site. The work that she is doing will not work in within the frame structure and she insists that frames have been deprecated in order to support her style of design. I could care less if the group she is creating this for wants it this way, but I question the statement that frames have been deprecated. Is there any justification to this statement or is she blowing smoke? "