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This approach uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML), which has several benefits over using IFRAMES to make life a bit easier for the users of your site. First, DHTML allows for more flexible formatting than IFRAMEs permit. You can apply background images, borders, fonts, and all the other features you’ve learned to expect from HTML and Cascading Style Sheets to DHTML objects. In contrast, IFRAMES have almost no configurable features. Second, if someone fills out one form, switches to another, then switches back, there’s a good chance that the browser will lose the information that was initially entered. This problem doesn’t exist in the DHTML solution. Third, with DHTML you can do tricky things like clipping and moving the form around the page. You could do these things by combining IFRAMES and DHTML, but you might as well just use DHTML in the first place.
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Dynamic Forms with DHTML
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/dynamicforms.html
Apple Inc.
2006
Abstract: This approach uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML), which has several benefits over using IFRAMES to make life a bit easier for the users of your site. First, DHTML allows for more flexible formatting than IFRAMEs permit. You can apply background images, borders, fonts, and all the other features you’ve learned to expect from HTML and Cascading Style Sheets to DHTML objects. In contrast, IFRAMES have almost no configurable features. Second, if someone fills out one form, switches to another, then switches back, there’s a good chance that the browser will lose the information that was initially entered. This problem doesn’t exist in the DHTML solution. Third, with DHTML you can do tricky things like clipping and moving the form around the page. You could do these things by combining IFRAMES and DHTML, but you might as well just use DHTML in the first place.
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