iframe, you are dead to me

http://www.joshondesign.com/2012/03/07/iframe-you-are-dead-to-me/

by coderdude • 14 years ago

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Jbudone• 14 years ago

Lol, amusing post.. But in all seriousness the iFrame is incredibly useful when developing Comet-based webapps

paulhauggis• 14 years ago

When ajax supports POST file uploads, I might consider the extinction of iframe.

jamroom• 14 years ago

Exactly - this is currently the only reason we still use iframes in any capacity.

k4st• 14 years ago

And WYSIWYG editing.

underwater2• 14 years ago

You should be able to get the file list from an input in the 'change' event and then upload a FormData object via XHR.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_files_from_web_applic...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XMLHttpRequest/FormData

Domenic_S• 14 years ago

Database connection, you are dead to me.

saurik• 14 years ago

The very feature/bug that this post culminates with is actually the very reason why iframes on iOS have become an invaluable and seemingly irreplaceable tool in my architecture. It is the lack of cross-site uncooperative content resizing that has kept a lot of my stuff confined to iOS.

Urgo• 14 years ago

iOS, you are dead to me

dannyc• 14 years ago

I had never used iframes until I switched jobs and was tasked with upgrading a legacy application with literally hundreds of lines of javascript on many of the html pages- frequently set to run on onload(). Because a full rewrite was not an option- iframe came to be my salvation. Ajax just wouldn't have cut in this scenario.

projectedoptics• 14 years ago

Sounds like he has more of an issue with how iframes are implemented on various platforms than with iframes themselves.

Up until recently I had a similar issue with position fixed on mobile devices.

iframe, you are dead to me

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