[thelist] are iframes antiquated?

Hassan Schroeder hassan at webtuitive.com
Tue Sep 21 14:07:10 CDT 2004


apathetic wrote:

> I would agree that frames are antiquated and should be avoided. 

"antiquated"?? They're a perfectly good solution to some problems;
look at JavaDocs. And for many web-based applications (dashboards,
control panels) they make total sense.

> However, my opinion on iframes is different.  They remain the only
> pure-HTML method of including the contents of another file in the
> document

Eh? -- the <object> tag works just fine for this, as well.

example:

<object
	type="text/html"
	data="some-included-content.html"
	height="200px"
	width="600px">
</object>

ref: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#edef-OBJECT>

FWIW,
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