On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I know that iframes don't stop the rest of the page from rendering >> while they load. I can't recall off the top of my head whether they >> delay the load event or not. > > It seems yes: > > "When there is an active parser in the iframe, and when anything in > the iframe is delaying the load event of the iframe's browsing > context's active document, the iframe must delay the load event of its > document." > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-iframe-element.html#the-iframe-element > > I don't think this is a huge problem, though.
Well, it is /a/ problem at any rate. http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/03/using-iframes-sparingly/ -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis