[OT] HTML: div/iframe hybrid?

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 02/26/2015 02:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I don't think it is a security hole, but websites typically do not get
> to set their viewport - the window size is under the user's control.
> (one of the few things they have left under the user's control!)
>
> So if you told a site to set its own size... it wouldn't really know
> what that is most the time. At least widths tend to be fluid and
> variable. Heights sometimes are set dynamically too.
>
> There's solutions to this - the containing page might set it to a width,
> then let the height be fluid.

Yea, that's kinda what I had in mind anyway. All these "embedded widget" 
things are such a major thing now, and I totally get their appeal and 
value (want X feature on your site? Just copy/paste this snippet into 
your page REGARDLESS of your server's language/engine!) But so much of 
it is done with JS, which is totally unnecessary. Most such things can 
easily be no-JS iframes (and I guess some are), but one problem is stuff 
like disqus that needs to grow/expand vertically. Traditional iframe 
can't really handle that. Looks like HTML5 iframes, thanks to the 
seamless attribute, WILL be able to handle something like disqus just 
fine with NO js, but looks like seamless is still rather cutting edge 
and spotty compatibility despite having been a thing for several years 
already. Maybe it can be managed well enough with CSS tweakery though, 
for browsers that aren't ultra cutting edge.

> That's what most the JS solutions do and
> it works pretty well. But maybe that still feels too hacky for the
> standards committees, or is just messy to implement for the browser
> developers.