Posted by Roy A. on 02/23/07 21:36

On 23 Feb, 10:51, "Andy Dingley" <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:

> > The iframe element is not obsolete or deprecated.

> I never said it was either.

Oh, but then we agree.

> <iframe> certainly isn't deprecated,

I'm glad you got that part right.

> nor is it entirely obsolete for some cases

So it isn't massively obsolete in most cases.

> where there's just no good alternative.

There is always some cases where some solutions is better than others.
Try to Google it.

> As SSI today is trivially available on almost every
> hosting service though,

That's true, in some sense, so there is no need for me to say anything
about PHP server-side Include().

> then using <iframe> as a workaround for not having it
> certainly is.

So using <iframe> as a workaround (in this case) is entirely obsolete,
because server-side script is trivially available on almost every
hosting service. A agree, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.

> <iframe> is never an elegant solution to doing
> client-side assembly of something that should be being assembled on
> the server.

Maybe not an elegant solution, and certainly not a good solution in
this case. The iframe element is, however, still there; and is widely
used and supported.

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