I frames have their use – but usually to include content from another site
(e.g. google maps, you tube etc) – or to embed dynamic content that either
needs to be dynamically updated and can’t do this with AJAX or you are
struggling with CSS clashes as the iframe is a different document. Not sure if
it would really help here – I think I would look at AJAX first – depends on
what you are trying to do.
There are alternative ways you can do this – but depends on your server
architecture – if you are using mod_perl for instances you can look at an
output filter to add the data, if you are using PSGI you may be able to wrap
additional layers around your code {won’t gain you much but would avoid
additional calls to cgi scripts} and add the content into the page after the
page has been rendered. With mod_perl you can do useful stuff with pnotes, in
other cases you may be able to use environment variables if you are running in
the same process {not easy if you are doing two separate calls}
The system we use is set up to do two stage caching – one which caches the
content of the page with placeholders which then get processed with additional
variables.
From: Tom Browder <[email protected]>
Sent: 04 October 2020 11:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Re: Alternatives to SSI (server side includes)? [EXT]
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 04:38 Rob De Langhe
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I simply use (or dynamically construct) a page with iframes, in which each
iframe gets loaded by a separate CGI results;
Hm, I've always thought that iframes were frowned upon in modern practice. I'll
have to read up on them
Thanks, Rob.
Cheers,
-Tom
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