IFrames

[Chris]

Can anyone tell me what browser support is for IFrames is. I was always
under the impression they were a MS propriatory feature, but Firefox seems
to support them. Some of our applications rely on them and they are handy
but we are starting to rebuild the apps in a more accessible and compliant
way so I would like to know where we stand with IFrames. Regards, Chris.

 

[Chaddy2222]

Can anyone tell me what browser support is for IFrames is. I was always
under the impression they were a MS propriatory feature, but Firefox seems
to support them. Some of our applications rely on them and they are handy
but we are starting to rebuild the apps in a more accessible and compliant
way so I would like to know where we stand with IFrames. Regards, Chris.

Personally I would dump them in favor of server side includes, or PHP
includes and use CSS if you still want the frames based look.

 

[Chris]

We design web applications and it is handy to post to a frame rather than
post to a page and have to remember the state of all the controls. They
don't get used for layout purposes.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Chris:

Can anyone tell me what browser support is for IFrames is.

Quite good these days. The main problem with iframe is the frame idea, which
deviates from the way web pages normally work.

I was
always under the impression they were a MS propriatory feature, but
Firefox seems to support them.

Microsoft invented them, but they were added to HTML 4 and other browser
vendors have followed suit. The HTML specs declare iframe as deprecated,
though.

Some of our applications rely on them
and they are handy but we are starting to rebuild the apps in a more
accessible and compliant way so I would like to know where we stand
with IFrames.

This really depends on what you are using iframe for. On non-supporting
browsers, a link with target="foo" where "foo" is the name of an iframe
might open in a window named "foo" or in the current window, so the link
still works. If you use iframe to include content, via the src attribute,
you should include a link to the content as the content of the iframe
element, as a fallback.

 

[Jemdam.com]

Can anyone tell me what browser support is for IFrames is. I was always
under the impression they were a MS propriatory feature, but Firefox seems
to support them. Some of our applications rely on them and they are handy
but we are starting to rebuild the apps in a more accessible and compliant
way so I would like to know where we stand with IFrames. Regards, Chris.

Hi Chris,

I think you are safe to use them, 95% and over of most of my server traffic
will work. There are other ways of avoiding them. I personal use them a lot
when I want to provide a cut and paste system for another webmaster to use.
Then it is always 3 lines of code (or 2!) no matter how complex the
application I make. I can also change my code and the others are updated.
Peoples views will be divided but I would go for the IFRAME over some devils
work Javascript Let the flaming begin!

David http://www.binaryincome.com