Open external webpage in the content region
Hi,
I'm currently developing a website for seniors and one of the things we want is to allow the seniors to read the newspaper (online of course). To achieve this I've added a few hyperlinks to the website of some newspapers. The thing is that I want to open the newspaper's homepage inside the content region of my website. I only manage to open the page in a new browser window or in the same browser window though. I already checked if it possible to open the newsite inside a frame (the "content frame" you could say) but apparently my Drupal site doesn't use frames.
So what I want is to open the homepage of an "external" website inside the content region of my Drupal site. I'm using Drupal 6.12 and the standard Garland theme.
Hope someone can help me.
EDIT: Just stumbled on the insertFrame module (http://drupal.org/project/insertFrame). This might be just what I need.
Cheers.
maybe, but don't
IFRAME is the cheap & nasty way to sorta do this, but has plenty of drawbacks. Mostly that you get the whole remote site and its navigation, sidebar and ads embedded it your border. Also that it totally messes up browser behaviour, scrollbars, history, bookmarks etc.
Then there are legal issues. A long time ago it was declared to be "para-siting" and it's (rightly) severely punishable to present another sites syndicated or licensed content with your own branding (and potentially advertising) around it. That's a big no-no if you don't have permission.
Terms of use for most sites that are there to provide original content prohibit 'framing' or re-use. Although terms of use that prohibit linking TO have been found to be invalid, prosecutions about EMBEDDING content have been upheld and would land you in trouble.
I believe Digg is currently being abused for trying that at the moment.
Technically, I've built a few tools that can genuinely strip and re-purpose a remote sites content seamlessly, but we don't use that power for evil.
Without a full understanding of the technical and legal issues, you really are better to continue to properly LINK to content you think is worth linking to. Whatever you think you can do to enhance your site by displaying someone elses content will be severely hampered by the issues you will create by trying to do so.
.dan.
OK, thanks for clarifying
OK, thanks for clarifying some issues. I guess I hadn't thought enough about all the legal issues and problems that could arise from them (I sure do understand it now that you say). I'll just keep the hyperlinks that open the news sites in a new browser window or tab.
I'm using the mobile version of the news papers so the interface would in fact be fairly suitable to put into a frame, although I am aware that you actually should avoid frames because of the many disadvantages that come with them.