Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Are IFrames better than using <div> tags and dhtml or AJAX on it.

After the whole discussion, on is IFRAME better or the DIV it could be easily said that both of them do pretty much the work what other other can do. The iframes could buy ease of useage without delving into the complexity of dealing with AJAX but on the other hand we would run into the problem of dealing with the javascript for the Iframes. It would be best if some one could come out with a middle solution that delt with the complexities of both.

A student at University of South Alabama (School of Computer Information Sciences) did his graduate project on reducing this complexity down to something as simple as adding one line of code to populate the iFrame and close it using the same instance of the object. But this solution is only functional with Visual Studio (Microsoft Technology only).

A Good Research Topic would be to make that thing more portable to work with java or any other technology, in respect to my conversation with the guy that developed it "Scott Lusk", he mentioned to me about the microsofts technology named "web resources".

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