frames
First a disclaimer, I browse TechCrunch though I don’t read a lot of posts. Also, I am not a Digg user. Just never really cared. So I don’t understand the hoopla about the DiggBar or its uses. But TechCrunch is covering it of course.
Evidently the DiggBar puts any site within a frame and creates a shortened URL making it easy to Digg it or share it or whatever. (Just check out digg.com/techcrunch.com for an example.) That has its uses obviously.
Frames, though. Frames are exactly what they sound like. The content of your site appears within a code frame of another site. So though the user sees your content, the address bar shows their URL.
I’m not going to make any claims that frames are bad user experience because I don’t know that’s really universally true. The DiggBar looks unintrusive and pretty. But as a website owner, I hate for my site to be displayed in someone else’s frame so for years, I’ve used a short “break out of frames” script that checks to make sure my website is in the top frame and if not, makes it so.
Go ahead try to view S&A in the DiggBar: digg.com/sandwichesandapples.org. See what happens?
Now I don’t mind missing the Digg traffic so this works out fine for me.
Here’s the script if you want it. I didn’t write it so I leave in the credit. Put it in your <head> tags:
<script>
<!--
/* Break-out-of-frames script
By Website Abstraction (http://wsabstract.com)
Over 400+ free scripts here!
Above notice MUST stay entact for use */
if (window!= top)
top.location.href=location.href
// -->
</script>
