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Peter Sawczynec ps-at-sun-code.com |nyphp dev/internal group use| wrote:

>It is interesting to note here that iframes have a history. If I recall
>correctly: 
>
>Originally, iframes were an IE only gambit and served to sidestep the
>more routinely employed numbingly complex of framesets, divs, layers and
>ilayers. 
>
>Then iframes were a security issue.
>
>Today iframes are a very handy vehicle allowing fast integration of
>disparate content items/sources. 
>
>Like Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm says -- I think maybe in Jurassic
>Park X, and correct me if I am wrong, but he says: "Nature will find a
>way. Nature always finds a way."
>
>Peter
>  
>
And as I am sure many people have said, big business will always try and 
limit innovation. IFrames (and asynchronous modification of page 
content) is a problem for search engines. To the extent that you need 
search engine referred traffic relevant to your page content, you need 
to avoid iframes and ajax (for now).

Chris' example is a submisison form, which has little to do with SE 
traffic. In general iframes are problematic for search engine spiders 
and ajax used for content (as opposed to UI stuff) is also problematic 
for spiders and indexing.

-=john andrews
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