Cross-Origin iFrame

Full Title or Meme

The Inline Frame, or iFrame was introduced to allow isolated web pages from unrelated entities to embed content seamlessly into a web page.

Context

• Frames and Framesets were introduced early in browser history to enable refreshing only a portion of a web page to improve responsiveness of web pages in the days of low bandwidth data communications.

References

• Iframes as a Security Feature does actually acknowledge some of the security problems with iFrames.