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"It mostly worked for the most common test cases, but we abandoned this approach for similar reasons mentioned in the article -- the edge case limitations becam
by 3xblah 7y ago
"It mostly worked for the most common test cases, but we abandoned this approach for similar reasons mentioned in the article -- the edge case limitations became more and more frustrating over time."
The article only mentions malformed URLs and browser run-time errors. Were there any other "edge case limitations" that became intolerable.
- Fauntleroy 7y agoSome websites will detect the iframe and send nothing instead of the requested page. I happen to know from personal experience that YouTube is one of the sites that does this.
- chii 7y ago> YouTube is one of the sites that does this. that's because they have a proper iframe-embed url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/quyj70RogxI https://www.youtube.com/embed/quyj70RogxI (instead of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyj70RogxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyj70RogxI )