However, several problems arose from the implementation and as such, frames have been removed from the W3C XHTML 1.1 standard.
XFrames was supposed to address some of the following problems existent in HTML frames: XFrames overcomes the bookmarking problem by encoding the population of the frames into the URI, thus making it possible to bookmark/add a favorite of a page successfully.
Similar to other markup languages, XFrames supported a number of elements and respective attributes.
Similarly to XHTML and HTML markups, the
elements contain meta-data primarily used for search optimization and document description.Lastly, the element acts as the placeholder for the content of a webpage specified by URL through the source attribute.