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axelfontaine | 10 months ago

Iframes, while not perfect, are pretty close though...

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lelandfe|10 months ago

Making iframes be the right size is super awkward. I might actually use them more if they were easy to get responsive.

This post does link to a technique (new to me) to extract iframe contents:

    <iframe src="/example.html" onload="this.before((this.contentDocument.body||this.contentDocument).children[0]);this.remove()"></iframe>

cratermoon|10 months ago

Are we solving the information-centric transclusion problem, or the design-centric asset reuse problem? An iframe is fine for the former but is not geared towards design and layout solutions.

webstrand|10 months ago

Iframes fundamentally encapsulate html documents, not fragments.

rendaw|10 months ago

Interaction between elements in different iframes is very restricted.

danans|10 months ago

IIRC, you can communicate entire JSON objects between an iframe and it's host frame with PostMessage.

The host can then act as a server for the iframe client, even updating it's state or DOM in response to a message from the iframe.