iframe, you are dead to me
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iframe, you are dead to me
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Re: iframe, you are dead to me
#2Lol, amusing post.. But in all seriousness the iFrame is incredibly useful when developing Comet-based webapps
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#3When ajax supports POST file uploads, I might consider the extinction of iframe.
Re: iframe, you are dead to me
#4When ajax supports POST file uploads, I might consider the extinction of iframe.
Exactly - this is currently the only reason we still use iframes in any capacity.
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#5Database connection, you are dead to me.
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#6Re: iframe, you are dead to me
#7The 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.
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#8iOS, you are dead to me
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#9I 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.
Re: iframe, you are dead to me
#10When ajax supports POST file uploads, I might consider the extinction of iframe.
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...