[thelist] IFRAMES -- what?!

[Kae Verens]

Erik Mattheis wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 08:23  AM, Kae Verens wrote:
>> That's not a perfect solution, and can still cause immense headaches. 
>> It requires, for example, that you have two copies of every page on 
>> the site, and that the navigation be very very careful.

> Content between <iframe> and </iframe> is ignored by browsers that 
> support iframe and displayed by browsers that don't.

true in most cases. "links", for example, just displays a link to the 
IFramed page.

> Err ... id you mean something else? I'm all ears, as I wrote the text 
> iframe for the first time last week ... is there something it seems I 
> don't know that I should know about?

If you are using the IFrame as a wrapper to contain quite a few pages, 
then you get the same navigation problem that ordinary frames cause - 
non-IFrame browsers will simply open links to the pages in a new page, 
but your navigation will be completely left behind. - you'd have to keep 
going forwards and backwards to get anywhere (a bit like the Red Queen 
in Through The Lookingglass). This is especially nasty if the visitor 
comes in via a search engine and is presented with no navigation at all...

Of course, there are solutions, but they're messy. Try it on a large 
site, and you'll see what I mean...

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