Posted by Andy Dingley on 02/23/07 09:51

On 22 Feb, 19:29, "Roy A." <royarnes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > For content on pages, then CSS "position: fixed;" is good, but not
> > widely supported.
>
> Only by about 50% of the browsers.

When 50% can't make use of it, then that's a problem.


> > _Don't_ use an <iframe> though, that's a blecherous and massively
> > obsolete solution.
>
> The iframe element is not obsolete or deprecated.

I never said it was either. <iframe> certainly isn't deprecated, nor
is it entirely obsolete for some cases where there's just no good
alternative. As SSI today is trivially available on almost every
hosting service though, then using <iframe> as a workaround for not
having it certainly is. <iframe> is never an elegant solution to doing
client-side assembly of something that should be being assembled on
the server.

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