Wonderful Inline Frames
Originally introduced by Internet Explorer 3.0, iframes, inline or floating frames, were officially adopted in HTML 4.0. This is good news because they're very effective when put to appropriate use. The bad news is that they aren't supported by Netscape 4.61 and many other browsers. Netscape 6.0+ does have inline frame support.
Iframes work a bit differently from standard frames. First, you don't create a separate frameset for the frame. You place the iframe information directly inline in any regular page.
Iframes are extremely handy in terms of being able to update specific windows within a browser. They are often used to manage web advertisements, which are often delivered from another server and updated regularly. ...
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