Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: > >> On Sat, October 15, 2005 7:26 am, Edward Vermillion wrote: >> >> > Do they want the PDF to display in the page, or is a link to a PDF >> > ok for them? >> >> >> I've already warned them that a PDF embedded into a page is >> impossible. >> >> That may not be true, technically, for all I know, but I've sure >> never seen it, and don't even want to try to go somewhere that so few >> have gone. >> > > I would expect that putting the PDF in an <iframe> would work, but I > wouldn't trust browsers or the Acrobat plugin to not crash horribly in > that sort of situation. It's also going to be very confusing for users > seeing the Acrobat toolbar floating in the middle of their page. > > It would be interesting to see some tests of PDF-in-<iframe> done in > various different browsers, but unless it just happened to work > perfectly in every common browser (we can all dream, can't we?) I > wouldn't touch it. > > Jasper
After some consideration I am pretty sure it works, since an <iframe/> is just the same as a <frame/>, and I am dead certain you can open a PDF document, or a Word document, or a Flash file, inside a frame without anything crashing. As for the PDF toolbar, I think that with the proper CSS styles on the <iframe/> element you can make it pretty apparent that the <iframe/> contains a PDF document. Also, when using <iframe/> you are weeding out those old browsers that wouldn't support even loading an <iframe/>, which means that you get relatively new browsers, and those should all support this method. Besides, if this is for an editor interface, for a specific client, one could reasonably demand that they use at least one of the newer browsers such as IE5+ or Mozilla. If not for a specific client, or subset of clients, but for a general update of an entire application that is open sourced, I agree with Jasper, don't touch it. :) Regards, Torgny -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
