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> Who here remembers frames?

I was there, writing sites professionally when this was rolled out.

They're more or less deprecated, but I missing having a 1st-class building block that allows you to resize areas of the screen. Recommendations are to use anything but a <frameset>, but there's no replacement for that one feature.

https://html.com/frames/

> I remember building site navigations in Java, Flash, and Silverlight.

Don't forget ActiveX (actually, yes, we should all try to forget)




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