[Edbrowse-dev] AJAX and iframes

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

I'm sorry to hear about ongoing turmoil.  Good wishes.  I hope it goes as 
well as possible.

About Adam's question, hi Adam, I have not done anything since the 
synchronous-JAX code.  I think it's all yours if you have some time.  IPC 
is over my head, or at least I don't have a background utilizing it.  But 
I have been following along interestedly with your discussions!

Since iframes have come up recently, is there anything to be gained by 
talking about the two things in tandem?  If you're considering doing some 
work on true AJAX, is there an opportunity for making some code do double 
duty and saving some work, by basing iframes on the same work as long as 
you're there?  This would be if we wanted to switch the technique from the 
current (give the user a hyperlink to that content) to inline loading of 
what the iframe contains.  I have just been reading around recently that 
iframes and AJAX are comparable, right?  I have found pages that say 
things like:

"There are basically 3 client side ways of including external content 
into a page ... a visible iframe ... a hidden iframe .... or VIA Ajax."

And a stack overflow question, "Why AJAX over iframes?" albeit from 2012.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10656992/why-ajax-over-iframes

thanks
Kevin