No <iframe> ?

Is it possible to load the editor without using the iframe ?

Since the <iframe> tag has been removed in XHTML Strict it would be nice to "avoid" it somehow for people trying to stick to that standard..

Tue, 04/19/2005 - 21:02

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

Posts: 143

RE: No <iframe> ?

Fri, 04/22/2005 - 05:15

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

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RE: No <iframe> ?

anyone have a fix for this yet ?

Mon, 04/25/2005 - 07:43

philjohn

Joined: 14/03/2005

Posts: 5

Found a fix for you xhtml-strict fans...

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1.dtd
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml

http://www.google.com

Mon, 04/25/2005 - 07:35

philjohn

Joined: 14/03/2005

Posts: 5

RE: No <iframe> ?

It's my understanding that the contentEditable feature may only be applied to a full page (i.e the document.body node).

Using an iframe to be the editable section is a nice hack (so is wysiwyg editing in a browser full stop) that allows you to have the editor embedded in the page (rather than the editor BEING the page).

If you want to keep xhtml 1.0 strict you may need to look at either providing a textarea only, having a non-compliant page popup that then posts back to a textarea or finally a java applet or similar that's added using an object tag (being as embed is not part of the spec).

At the end of the day, does it really matter if a single page that the editor resides on isn't in spec? As long as the rest of your site is marked up semantically with layout performed by css I don't see the problem.

Mon, 04/25/2005 - 12:57

stripe-man

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Posts: 143

RE: No <iframe> ?

Only one problem that i know of... (for me anyway) .. the fact that Netscape does NOT support iframes. To have a platform independent solution that is also cross browser independent is the goal for me.THere are MANY a persons with Netscape out there - especially in my line of work - (govt).

That is why im interested in this solution.

Tue, 04/26/2005 - 04:50

bnoblet

Joined: 29/11/2006

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RE: No <iframe> ?

Tue, 04/26/2005 - 10:19

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

Posts: 143

RE: No <iframe> ?

um.. interesting.. well I am not sure why but the Netscape that we are using at work does NOT support Iframes. I had to build in an exception for the browsers. (ew)

But what is worse than than is Netscape on Solaris (mozilla based?) will NOT support iframes. AND Sun (Solaris) has removed support for Netscape anyway. They have started packaging Mozilla (1.6) with their OS (Gnome). It does support iframes, thank God. ..

.But now i have ran accross another problem with this Mozilla 1.6. I added a button for to select some preformated text... but on the Solaris Mozilla.. it give me this error:

Javascript error: Chrome://global/content/globalOverlay.js Line 50
Too much recursion

and then the CPU goes to 100% Util and you have to kill the browser...

Suggestions?