Does Drupal have frames?

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parmenion - February 16, 2006 - 19:25

Hi all,

Does Drupal have frames?

cheers, P

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Not easily

rjung - February 16, 2006 - 19:32

Generally speaking, no.

My understanding is that you can probably hack Drupal to support frames, but it'd a major effort -- Drupal's page-serving mechanism isn't really built for frames.

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so does that mean...

parmenion - February 16, 2006 - 19:50

Thanks - so does that mean it's similar to joomla in this regard... it uses modules in pre-set positions to achieve a similar result as frames?

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Output display is the result

sepeck - February 16, 2006 - 20:01

Output display is the result of your theme. Perhaps if you elaborated more on what you are looking to accomplish that you think you need frames for, you might get a better answer.

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what im trying to do

parmenion - February 16, 2006 - 21:01

Thanks Steven, good suggestion.

I need to have the user be able to stream a video whilst they similtaneously read text that relates to the video. the text is long, so i was using frames to:
1. ensure the video does not scroll off of the screen and
2. ensure the video continues to play when the user follows a link in the text that bring more info up in that same frame where the text was.

I did think about using a catalogue/shopping cart solution if i could find one that allowed me to have video in the product descriptions... but maybe that's a dumb approach.

would love to hear your thoughts on the best approach to take...

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The "web2.0" way to handle

greggles - February 16, 2006 - 21:14

The "web2.0" way to handle that would be to put the text into a space that gets refreshed by ajax xmlhttprequest javascript to show any links or next pages.

I'm not sure if Drupal is really well suited to that task or not.

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Great, thanks. I'm happy to not

parmenion - February 17, 2006 - 09:30

Great, thanks. I'm happy to not use Drupal as I've not yet started the project. Starting from scratch - what system/lanuage would you recomend?
Cheers for your help!
P

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You can do iFrames and there

sepeck - February 17, 2006 - 17:12

You can do iFrames and there is at least two other people who have done this with audio type content. You may want to look at the podcast related modules for some ideas on the approach. You also may want to look at drupalart.com for some other ideas. I don't deal with audio/video content so don't have any other ideas for you.

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Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

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instead of frames, iFrame?

parmenion - February 17, 2006 - 11:14

Hi - not sure what the difference is - but would iFrames be what I'm looking for here...?

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Does Drupal NEED frames?

webwright - February 16, 2006 - 20:27

I know it's not the question you asked, but I'll throw it out there anyways. Frames have about a billion downsides (search engine ramifications, bookmarking difficulty for the user, etc).

Even if you are looking for one of the few things that frames were historically good for (navigation that doesn't scroll away), you can pull that off nicely with CSS nowadays.

So please, don't use frames. Ever ever ever! ;-)

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I agree, but...

rjung - February 17, 2006 - 17:10

Even if you are looking for one of the few things that frames were historically good for (navigation that doesn't scroll away), you can pull that off nicely with CSS nowadays.

I agree for the most part, but remember that the vast majority of web surfers are still using Internet Explorer (ick), which supports CSS about as good as Dick Cheney practices safe hunting. ;-)

A lot of times I've had to resort to inelegant, non-CSC-ish solutions for site designs just because "Must look great in IE" is a major requirement.

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Frames or Web 2.0

tcee - May 18, 2008 - 17:06

I personally want to wrap the contents of another site in a frame in a node in my drupal site. now, joomla has a module for that. Even though i would appreciate other methods (web 2.0, ajax etc), I still want this specific knowledge of using frames.

Also, imagine a scenario in which the content of another website is displayed in a node or block such that following any link in it would not result in a total page refresh. but instead let my audience remain on my drupal website. For this, any help would be great. please contribute

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=-=

VeryMisunderstood - May 18, 2008 - 17:14

place your frame tags and HTML in a node or a block use the FULL HTML input format and save.

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