2 ms·
What is old is new again. This is the original "portal" idea that was used back in the 1996-2000 days of Yahoo. This is also the same technique I have used at
by pm24601 9y ago
What is old is new again. This is the original "portal" idea that was used back in the 1996-2000 days of Yahoo.
This is also the same technique I have used at companies that need to present an "integrated" view.
For example, an internal HR web site that presents a single page of all things related to an employee benefits.
The information would come from multiple different services:
* ADP for payroll
* Fidelity for 401k
* An interval vacation tracker
* etc.
Each service would be given their own iframe that they control. No needs to worry about anything outside the iframe.
This is a time-proven way to do an integrated presentation of independent systems.
To clean up the look and feel - use basic html transformations and inject the site css.
It may seem "hacky" - but it works well in many many real world circumstances.