Actually, I think that iFrames would not be very different. I think the concept of "fuses" is very easy to use within any design. I'm not talking about Fusebox in the general "use a fuse" sense. I'm referring to the Fusebox spec (either 2.0 or 3.0) If you stick to the "Fusebox spec", which requires, among many things: 1) everything must go through the index.cfm file 2) layout at an application level, not at the fuse level
Typically in Fusebox, you'll store your layout in a file separate from the index.cfm or the fuses, and use something like cfsavecontent to get the content of each fuse into it. In order use frames, you'll usually require different pages to have different layouts. As such, you'll usually need to create some conditionality in your layouts file to deal with these issues. --- Billy Cravens ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:55 AM Subject: RE: iframe > oops...if we're talking iframes, I wouldn't know. > my bad. > > (hee hee) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Johnny Thompson > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: iframe > > > ok..I'll play devil's advocate. > I tend to disagree. I enhanced a small application last year that made > extensive use of frames. I integrated new freatures by isolating the > functions as fuseactions (which were called by a hidden frame). It was a > very clean and encapsulated mechanism. While I agree it is quite > complicated to accomplish, if well thought-out in advance, it can be a very > enlightening (not to mention reusable) experience! > > my 2% of a dollars worth. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of BILLY CRAVENS > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: iframe > > > Fusebox never has handled frames very well. > > IFrames work just like regular frames, except you can put them in a page > with preexisting HTML. > > Of course, you can only use them where you can guarantee IE. > > --- > Billy Cravens > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Schreck, Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 9:22 AM > 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? 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