Why AJAX over iFrames?
ajax, html, iframe, post
Solution
- One advantage AJAX has is being able to read the state/status of the request. You also have access to page headers, which you don't with Iframes.
- Ajax can handle multiple asynch requests. It's a little trickier with Iframes as you need to create an Iframe per request (and keep track of all of them to delete them later) instead of recycling the same one.
- Existing libraries are full of AJAX goodness and there is a larger community support base.
Problem
I am relatively new programmer, talking with a partner he told me, that before AJAX, he used a iframe to send data and change the content(obviously with help of JavaScript). I understood that both are similar techniques, but i didn't find a article to describe their characteristic, what are advantages of AJAX over Iframe ? EDIT i didnt find any explanation of the technique, but my partner told me he post the data trough a hidden iframe and submit the iframe, sound like just the iframe have to be refreshed, but i never did that