Comments on: No more iframes?

By: Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:15:05 +0000

This do anything for ya, lads?

OBJECT WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=100 data="test.htm" /OBJECT

By: BigA

BigA — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:42:02 +0000

Would love it if this worked in IE7. Would be a great alternative to iframes.

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Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:45:41 +0000

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By: Should we stop using iframes in IE? - Robert’s talk

Should we stop using iframes in IE? - Robert’s talk — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:53:51 +0000

[...] In November last year, Aleksandar Vaci? wrote his post Insert HTML page into another HTML page (found through No more iframes?). Basically, what it is about is finding a way to use an object element instead of an iframe to get the correct behavior in Internet Explorer. [...]

By: dwyn

dwyn — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:57:32 +0000

When using an object in place of an iframe, how do you “target” links to load into the object as you would with a static navbar that drives content into an iframe?

I tried using the traditional target=”content” and gave my object an id and name of “content” which worked for Firefox, but not for Internet Explorer.

By: Dump iframes and use object elements instead · Webstandarder på Dansk

Dump iframes and use object elements instead · Webstandarder på Dansk — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:11:39 +0000

[...] There is an option, but it is of little practical use since it doesn�t work in Internet Explorer: the object element. Or so it was believed. The other day I came across Stuart Colville�s post No more iframes?. In the post, Stuart points to Aleksandar Vaci?�s article Insert HTML page into another HTML page, which explains a very clever way of using an object element to insert an external HTML document into a page. [...]

By: Brian McAllister

Brian McAllister — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:20:58 +0000

Hi guys & gals,

I ran across this testsuite that might also be helpful with this line of enquiry (they don’t use the classId though).

By: pigdart

pigdart — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:06:58 +0000

Why use the “classid”, when the “codetype”(html4.01-xhtmlstrict) attribute works in Opera, Internet Explorer and Firefox?

example: …object codetype=”text/html” data=”some.html”…

By: Derek Featherstone

Derek Featherstone — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:21:54 +0000

Brilliant! Would love to see some further examples that are a bit more complex and would love to do some low-level testing on them.