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Frames are still used as underlying microfrontend technology with surprising success. Theory available at https://martinfowler.com/articles/micro-frontends.html#Run-t... and an implementation at https://luigi-project.io.

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That's iframes. There is an older, even more archaic spell that lets you do iframes, but not inline. Those are, as we all know, superior.

Yes! Those were made with the now obsolete <frameset> tag. An example here: https://www.quackit.com/html/html_4/tags/html_frameset_tag.c...

In fact, I used them too around 2001 or so for my website when I did not enough programming/scripting to add a common layout to all content pages. That's how I originally implemented a two column layout: a narrow frame on the left for navigation links and a wide one on the right for content. I don't do it anymore, of course. I do know how to program now and generate my HTML website using a tiny Common Lisp program that adds common headers and footers to all my web pages.

We've come so far. Using a language from the 60s to write markup in a language from the 90s all so we can feel good by avoiding writing imperative code in another language from the 90s.

Seriously though, why can HTML not have a client side include?

Thankfully you can do it now in a custom elements. I used one, I assumed everybody else would have one by now, too

You can do client-side include with XSLT, which (surprisingly!) all major browsers support.

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