Frames

whats the situation these days

[fashezee]

When I started my career in web design, I read that the use of FRAMES can result in death in some countries.
On more serious note, FRAMES would cause havoc with web crawlers and if users would bookmark your site. As I surf the web and view sites, I see the use of FRAMES more often. Has the status of FRAMES changed??? Can someone please update me on this issue!!!!!

[Filipe]

Frames are generally still a design no-no. You see 'em all over the place because in several cases, they do have some useful functionality. More often than not though, it's abusive or annoying. There are clear advantages to using frames, and very clear disadvantages - a lot of which have to do with how the Web is supposed to work.

The advantages are obvious - saves browsing time by allowing an always-accessible, always-loaded navigational area. It can also let you do things like this:
[w3schools.com...]

Downsides include the fact that links opened in a frame will open only within that frame unless otherwise specified (which, with more poorly managed websites, wouldn't usually be specified). The idea of a hyperlink to someone else's site is to take one to someone elses site - by allowing their site to open within your framework, you're stealing their content in a sense.

I'm not sure about it, but I don't think they're friendly to disables users either.

[Morrison]

I used to use frames when i had top/side menu on my sites couse it save me the need of changing all the pages when i wanted to add item to the menu (using frame you just need to change the menu file).

but now, i don't need to use frame at all couse there is nothing that:

<!--#include file="framefile.asp"-->

don't solve.