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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Aug 31, 2004 1:30PM

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, mburks952 wrote:

> I am wondering how this group feels about the use of iframes, particularly
> iframes implemented from within JavaScript code.

The use of iframe generally indicates wrong approach on several accounts.
Formally, iframe has been deprecated by the W3C.

> I am seeing this on a site and I find it a bit disconcerting and I am not
> using assistive technology. The iframe is implemented without a name and
> has no code for browsers that do not support iframes.

Sounds horrendous. But it is difficult to say how bad the situation is,
without analyzing how iframes have been used.

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/