[thelist] IFRAMES -- what?!

[Erik Mattheis]

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 09:14  AM, Koutoulas, Pete wrote:
> Erik, I'm getting in on this late (our mail server lost a lot of my 
> TheList
> messages overnight) so this may have already been addressed. But I am
> curious, if you have access locally to the content that is in the 
> iframe,
> why bother with one in the first place?

This thread is new today: Only important thing you may have missed was 
in the initial post "any pro/con discussions?"

In answer to your question: I think using iframe in my situation is 
good because it allows:

- current news items to be near the top of the page, convenient for 
returning visitors
- visitors with 800 x 600 resolution see the beginning of the "meat" of 
the home page without scrolling
- visitors with larger windows can see a whole lot of the meat without 
scrolling
- search engines will see and index the meat of the page as higher (if 
I opt for <iframe src="x"><a href="x">read news</a></iframe>
- my client to see a neat widgety thing and they like neat widgety 
things

In the "cons" column would be the opposite of all points above except 
the first point. And the last point: my client originally requested the 
news be displayed like something else they described which sounded like 
DHTML to me, so they might like that better, but I'm not going to touch 
it.

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Erik Mattheis
GoZz Digital
<http://goZz.com/>
Flash and ColdFusion Development
Minneapolis, MN
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