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Jbudone
Lol, amusing post.. But in all seriousness the iFrame is incredibly useful when developing Comet-based webapps
paulhauggis
When ajax supports POST file uploads, I might consider the extinction of iframe.
jamroom
Exactly - this is currently the only reason we still use iframes in any capacity.
k4st
And WYSIWYG editing.
underwater
Are you talking about document.designMode? You can enable contentEditable on any element to enable editing for subset of the document.
Domenic_S
Database connection, you are dead to me.
saurik
The very feature/bug that this post culminates with is actually the very reason why iframes on iOS have become an invaluable and seemingly irreplaceable tool in my architecture. It is the lack of cross-site uncooperative content resizing that has kept a lot of my stuff confined to iOS.
Urgo
iOS, you are dead to me
dannyc
I had never used iframes until I switched jobs and was tasked with upgrading a legacy application with literally hundreds of lines of javascript on many of the html pages- frequently set to run on onload(). Because a full rewrite was not an option- iframe came to be my salvation. Ajax just wouldn't have cut in this scenario.
projectedoptics
Sounds like he has more of an issue with how iframes are implemented on various platforms than with iframes themselves.

Up until recently I had a similar issue with position fixed on mobile devices.