On 8/29/05 (9:10 ) Bob Hanson wrote: >David, our statistics suggest that it is time to abandon Netscape >4.x. It just isn't worth it. > unless you still use Chime on the Mac. ;-)
>Question: Are iframes "out" in the "frameless" model? I have not >found an alternative (short of a Java applet, I suppose) to the use >of frames or iframes to load independent file data into a web >application. Can that be done some other way? The need is to load >data in the form of HTML the way one might load data in the form of >a model. (Now that I think of it, of course, Jmol can do that -- >load any file data from a server -- but it would be a stretch to >call Jmol a general solution to this problem!) > neither iframes nor frames are depricated or obsolete, even in the XHTML 1.0 spec (which is what I try to use for validation). so I second David in that there is nothing inherently bad about them. they just aren't as flexible as divs IMHO. to address your question, one can write content to a div using javascript after the container document has fully loaded. I vaguely recall the ability to load that content from an external file as well, but I may be mistaken on the latter point. in any case, unless you are using server scripts to generate your external file content, you should be able to accomplish the same result in divs without iframes. I like rewriting to divs instead of (i)frames because it provides much greater dynamic control over the layout, without reloading pages from the server. my two cents, tim -- Timothy Driscoll molvisions - see, grasp, learn. <http://www.molvisions.com/> earth:usa:virginia:blacksburg "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." - Oliver Wendell Holmes ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
