| respondneeraj 2004-07-27, 3:01 am |
| hi , Jose
Use of IFRAME with Caution:
IFRAMEs are an easy way to include extenal content within a portlet,but undermine the whole portlet principle because the portlet API is just tunneled or side-stepped.
Therefore , IFRAME's should only be used for very special cases,such as surfacing legacy applications.
Other potential issues to consider when using an IFRAME are:
a)--> The IFRAME fills its content based on a URL. The URL must be addressable by the browser ,therefore the server that is the target of the URL must be accessible bye the browser.
b)----> Not all browser levels supports IFRAMEs.
c)----> If the content is larger than the IFRAME region, then enable horizontal and vertical scrolling to let the user scroll through the embedded content.Content which contains scrolling regions itself can make it different for the end user to manipulate
all scrolling regions to view all embedded content, causing uasbility problems.
Regards
Neeraj Sidhaye
Indore (India).
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