Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 03/04/07 18:06

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.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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