I have an iframe on my Freeway page that shows Blogger Posts within it. I have 5 posts in my blog. When I view the page in the virtual browser in Freeway the iframe expands to show all posts, but when I view the page in a real live browser, it does not. So I looked at the site on a different host and server thinking it was possibly my server (Go Daddy) that was the problem. It wasn’t. So I’m baffled. Ugh!
You can think of an iframe as a window, cut into your web page, through which you can look and see a distant site. That other site isn’t within your page. Just as the height of a mountain you see through the window of your house or office does not alter the dimensions of that window, so too the page you see through the iframe has no connection at all with your site, where the iframe is coded and styled.
What you are seeing in Freeway’s built-in browser is an accident – not designed behavior.
There are very strict rules in all browsers that create a security “sandbox” for each frame in a page. No information (with certain very specific exceptions to this rule) may cross the boundaries between one server and another. If your blog was hosted directly on the same server as the rest of your site, then there are methods you could use to send a JavaScript message from one frame to another, signaling the proper height for the iframe. But since you are hosted on Blogger and some other server, even this isn’t possible.
Walter
On Jan 8, 2014, at 11:25 AM, billy kimmel wrote:
I have an iframe on my Freeway page that shows Blogger Posts within it. I have 5 posts in my blog. When I view the page in the virtual browser in Freeway the iframe expands to show all posts, but when I view the page in a real live browser, it does not. So I looked at the site on a different host and server thinking it was possibly my server (Go Daddy) that was the problem. It wasn’t. So I’m baffled. Ugh!
Well that makes sense, but still a pain. If my client didn’t need to add pages to her site on her own via WebYep , this would not even be an issue. That is the rub, Web Yep edits to her menu will not happen on the Blogger page if the entire page is within blogger, so I thought maybe an iframe for the posts. I thought of building the blog within Freeway using Web Yep loops etc., but then the issue is the Archive which becomes more complicated for my client to do on their own with yet another menu, maybe I’m wrong. I have also never hosted a blog on the server that I’m using for a website. I’ve always relied on Blogger.
Is there any chance you could convince the client to move from WebYep to Pulse Pro which has a proper (if lightweight) integrated blog? That way you could ditch Blogger and it would make managing the blog so much simpler.
Thanks os much for your responses guys. So I decided to use the scroll option with iframe since I don’t have enough time to learn Pulse Pro, but now another issue. The iframe doesn’t scroll on iPad! Ugh! Is there a fix for this?