Re: xframe or iframe type='cross-domain'

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 2/9/12 12:43 PM, John J Barton wrote:
>>>
>>> The drawback is that your fallback behavior in UAs without support for
>>> the
>>> new feature is quite different.  Is that a problem?  Developer feedback
>>> definitely needed there.
>>
>>
>> Extending the API on iframe would make fallback easy even though it
>> lacks elegance:
>>   if (iframe.port) {
>>      // modern browser
>>   } else {
>>     // we still deal with contentWindow carefully for old timers
>>   }
>>
>
> The fallback issue I was talking about is that if you mint a new element
> called <xframe> then it wouldn't even load pages in an old browser.

Yes, sorry, I did understand that. Let me try again:

If, rather than using <xframe>, we simply add "port" to <iframe> then,
as you implied originally, there is no fall back problem. Fallback is
as above.

jjb

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:11:20 UTC