Question about Iframes

Fat Sam wrote:

 > Are Iframes supported by most browsers, or are they one of those IE
 > specific things?.....

"mscir" just posted the following in c.i.w.a.h.:

<quote>
Browser support for iframes:

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.websitegravy.com/pages/iframe/" target="_blank">http://www.websitegravy.com/pages/iframe/</a>

- IE: IE appears to support the iframe since v4 (Mac since v3)
- Netscape: v6 and later
- Opera: the 4.02 beta is said to support iframes (Mac and Unix since
v5; BeOS since v3.62)
- Mozilla: since v1
- Bezilla: since v1
- Galleon: since v1.2
- WarpZilla: since v1
- Lynx: support since 2.8.2


<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe.html" target="_blank">http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe.html</a>

- Internet Explorer has supported iframe since version 3. However, IE
as well other browsers have problems in the support, as discussed
later in this document.
- Netscape 6 supports iframe. It has been reported that Netscape 4.7
on Mac has iframe support, but all Netscape 4.x versions on Windows
probably lack support. And it has been reported that Mozilla M12
supports iframe.
- iCab supports it, with a user option to disable the support.
- WebTV Plus has iframe support, but the "small bugs" include failure
to comply with the fundamental idea of using the content of the
element only if the inline frame itself is not displayed.
- Lynx 2.8.2 handles iframe in a manner similar to its treatment of
normal frames: it provides a link (preceded by the text IFRAME:) to
the document specified in the src attribute of the iframe tag and then
renders the content of the iframe element. As the link text, it uses
the name attribute if present, otherwise the URL (the src attribute
value).
- Opera 4.0 beta supports iframe, with the option to turn the support
off (as independently of normal frame support), and the default
setting seems to be to have the support disabled.


<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.quirksmode.org/" target="_blank">http://www.quirksmode.org/</a>

- iframes are not supported by Netscape 4.
- iframes inside layers are buggy in Opera 6 (solved in 7). Even
outside layers, they can be very buggy in Opera 5 on Mac.
- WebTV reloads the entire page when reloading an iframe.
- Using location.href in an iframe to change the page in the iframe
does not work in Explorer 4 and 5.0 on Windows and Opera 5 and 6.
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That said, I would be looking for some other way to do what you want.

 > The reason I'm asking is that I'm building an extremely basic
 > impression counter for one of my front pages, using a "0" sized
 > Iframe containing an asp page that retrieves a few server variables
 > and writes them to a database......It's very basic stuff, but good
 > enough for what I need......I'm just wondering if it will work
 > across a range of browsers.....

Why not just gather the info with asp code as you display the page?
Should be trivial.

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 > Why not just gather the info with asp code as you display the page?
 > Should be trivial.

Pretty much because the page I'm wanting to gather the figures about is an
HTML page and it would cause some serious re-structuring of the site's
navigation across a hell of a lot of pages if I was to change this page to
an ASP one.....I wanted to insert a bit of asp code into the HTML page so it
would run and record an entry in a DB, and I figured this was one way of
doing it.....The results don't need to be highly accurate stats...Just ball
park figures......<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Fat Sam wrote:
  >> Why not just gather the info with asp code as you display the page?
  >> Should be trivial.
 >
 > Pretty much because the page I'm wanting to gather the figures about
 > is an HTML page and it would cause some serious re-structuring of the
 > site's navigation across a hell of a lot of pages if I was to change
 > this page to an ASP one.....I wanted to insert a bit of asp code into
 > the HTML page so it would run and record an entry in a DB, and I
 > figured this was one way of doing it.....The results don't need to be
 > highly accurate stats...Just ball park figures......

Sam,
As Mir suggests - look into SSI
 > If possible, use server side includes (SSI)<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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