[thelist] are iframes antiquated?
Maximillian Schwanekamp
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Tue Sep 21 16:40:50 CDT 2004
Rich Points wrote:
>> Eh? -- the <object> tag works just fine for this, as well.
>
> It seems that a Server Side Include (SSI) or PHP would handle this
> just as well.
The point was "pure HTML." Iframes do have the advantage of being
controllable by client-side scripting, sort of rough-and-ready remoting,
for example to populate a "help box" with the help articles coming from
backend db via php without needing to refresh the containing page. $0.02.
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