[thelist] Hidden CGI Communications

[Mike Migurski]

>I work on an Win IE6-only site and we do hidden communications with the
>server via an iframe. In short, I load JS data into the iframe and then
>the JS code in the page itself processes that data.
>
>I am wondering, out of curiosity, do people have any other solutions to
>this challenge? Last I recall, NetScape did not support the iframe tag.
>Actually, I don't believe it's valid HTML either, which would be another
>GOOD reason to find an alternative.

Nope, it's valid:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#h-16.5

Post-4.x Netscape handles it just fine. What kind of "hidden"
communications are you shooting for?

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