As far as Fusebox goes I think iFrames will work within a Fused application. If I'm understanding it correctly, you still call the index page, but you target the iFrame instead of the main page. So you would have in essence an index page calling itself but passing different fuseactions. I have not tested this yet, just speculating.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: Dave Cahall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: iframe The primary difference between iFrames and "regular frames" is their location. The W3C specification actually calls them "floating frame" which more aptly recognizes their significance. You can directly specify the location of an iFrame. Combine that with the ease of making them hidden or set their size to 0x0 and you can begin to make you app look like a standard Windows app. However, in addition to their lack of universal support, there is some tricky syntax involved when sharing information between iFrames and your main page. But, putting that aside, combining iFrames with DHTML can make your page very sophisticated and give it the look and feel of a standard Windows app. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Schreck, Tom Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: iframe How does it compare to regular frames? How does iframes work within a methodology like fusebox? I'm visualizing a scenario where you have all of your navigation on the main page and you pump all the content into the iframe saving you the overhead of reproducing the navigation on every call. Is this correct? Thanks - Tom -----Original Message----- From: Charles F. McLean III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iframe I'm currently working on a very large scale project that leverages IE 5.5 or higher only, a lot of Javascript (literally thousands of lines of Javascript per page), a lot of DHTML, and obviously CSS. By using IFrames, some fancy list box manipulation techniques, some WDDX, and a few other tricks, we have developed an application that has taken 60% of our data formatting load off the server and transferred it to the client and allows the client side app running in IE 5.5 to perform like a Windows NT app written in Delphi, VB or C++. By distributing the data formatting load to the client, we're able to greatly expand the number of users we can support. The client can load the page, work offline, add/edit/delete and modify records on the fly, and then when they are done, submit only the changed records back to the server for update. The performance we are getting is phenominal, and the interaction is great ... and there is no need for any Java applets or COM objects or any other mobile code (a requirement for our project). The only thing we use is HTML, CFML and Javascript. Since this is an application for the US Military, we can dictate the browser being used ... which is a good thing since the app crashes hard in Netscape. So, if you have the ability to pick your browser, I highly recommend IFrames and DHTML ... you can do some truly amazing things for your users. Regards, Charles F. McLean III Principal Member of the Technical Staff Northrup Grummon Information Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Cahall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:35 PM Subject: RE: iframe > As pointed out by others, Netscape is a problem but if your audience is IE > they are great. I will be doing a presentation on using iFrames at next > month's CFUG meeting. As Robert pointed out, they are great for making your > pages truly interactive. One of the things I will be talking about is using > hidden iFrames with some Javascript to do "real time" validation, and some > other neat tricks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Schreck, Tom > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: iframe > > > Has anyone used iframe? Any suggestions/guidelines? > > Thanks - Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email server is running an evaluation copy of the MailShield anti- > spam software. Please contact your email administrator if you have any > questions about this message. 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