In
videotex systems, the
frame is the unit of displayed information. Equivalent to the
page in
hypertext systems. The frame
format varied with the transmission
medium but generally consisted of a banner line, 23 or 24 lines of
content and a
status line.
Under HTML, the <frame> tag is used to define part of a page. The content of each frame on a page comes from a different HTTP connection and can come from an entirely different server. Frames are a powerful - and, thus, often abused - facility.