[thelist] are iframes antiquated?

Maximillian Schwanekamp lists at neptunewebworks.com
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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