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My favourite was using iFrames as a type of ersatz AJAX. Click a link, make the target the iframe, an voila! No page refresh, and the iFrame gives visual feedback.

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I recently did sort of the inverse as an experiment: put a button in a frame to avoid reloading the main page:

https://log.schemescape.com/posts/web-development/interactiv...

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