Samuel Richardson wrote:
If you want to load entire web pages embedded into the current page you
will have to use the iframe, if just want to change simple text/html
within a div then you will have to use the innerhtml property (or use
this method that came up on delicious this morning:
http://slayeroffice.com/articles/innerHTML_alternatives/)
I agree that this would be better done using DOM scripting as a more
standards-based approach, like it says in that article. I'm new to DOM
scripting myself, but found this book by Jeremy Keith to be excellent;
DOM Scripting
http://www.domscripting.com/book/
It's suitable for those with very little scripting experience as well as
those with intermediate or better JavaScript skills - I skipped the
first 60 pages and then found the content and pacing to be exactly what
I needed to understand DOM-based alternatives to things like innerHTML
and old-fashioned image swapping techniques.
I think it would be a great addition to the shelf for those that want a
good introduction to the area, considering degradable code and
accessibility at every stage; the book is well written and very easy to
follow. What it's not is a recipe book of flashy effects.
Going back to the original request, my concern would be about how
accessible the solution would be without JavaScript; you'd need to
ensure that the content was either supplemental to the main purpose of
the page, or that the page degraded well so that the content was still
available without JavaScript.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Ian
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