Apr
9
How and Why to Block the DiggBar
All sorts of sites tried this sort of trickery back in the mid-’90s when Netscape Navigator 2.0 added support for the
<frameset>tag. It did not take long for a broad consensus to develop that framing someone else’s site was wrong. URLs are the building block of the Web. They tell the user where they are. They give you something to bookmark to go back or to share with others.
Why in the world would Digg do this? I mean, I know why, but is it worth dragging what little street cred they have all the way into the gutter?
