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iframes have had a wild ride in acceptance 1999 - Cool and Clever 2005 - Horrible 2010 - Horrible but sometimes necessary 2015 - Awesome

• majewsky 7y ago
  > 2015 - Awesome Huh, what happened?
  • EdwardDiego 7y ago
    We started injecting everyone else's JS everywhere.
  • d_k_f 7y ago
    Limitations imposed upon embedded scripts from foreign domains by technologies like CORS and the like, combined with modern styling abilities. You can place another service's elements on a page that look like they're actually part of the page layout while the JS running them can freely communicate with the service's backend without having to bother with cross domain problems. Think of all the support/chat widgets you see on modern-day pages, they're all iframes. And obviously: tracking all the things!