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tores
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Site partitioning

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Hi.

I'm making a web-program for a company, and is currently in the planning-stages of the development process. I have been doing some prototyping of the user interface and wish to split pages into several independent sections. E. g. I plan to have a box with information which can be stored and refreshed without the rest of the page beeing affected. Is there a way to do this in html or php?

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frames and iframes... search the forums for several discussions on iframes and their older sibling
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Try to avoid iframes as much as possible because is possible to do not have cross-browser compatibility.
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Is iFrame support simply missing in some contemporary browsers or are you saying that they implement iFrames in a different manner?

I was planning on using iFrames myself to replace a list box as I need to format several fields and possibly add some icons, but if this is a major issue then I may need to reconsider.

Thanks.
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IE 3+ (5.x+ Mac), Mozilla, and Netscape 6+ supports iframes. That covers a large portion of the users.. It's reasonably safe.. Google thinks Safari supports it, as of 1.something, Opera 4 has iframe support, although turned off by default.

some further searching over at w3c turns up that XHTML 1.0 Strict does not contain iframe, however Transitional does. Also, HTML 4 DTD appears to have iframe in its confines.
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thanks (again!)
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