Iframe

[crazihos]

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Im looking to put a large iframe on my site with a comparison merchant in it for people to search through, will I get commission from my visitors using an iframe as long as I use my tracking URL? Or can anyone tell me is there an easy to use white label price comparison site I can use instead?

cheers

[Chris Tradgett]

Hi crazihos,

you'll need to bear in mind that iframes will probably not be supported by the next generation of IE, so it may leave you with a problem going forwards? I'm not an expert in this, but I know a man who is!

Chris

[Steve Jennings]

iframes will probably not be supported by the next generation of IE

Who's told you that? I would have thought it was pretty unlikely.

In any case if you are using an iframe its a good idea to use not supported alt text so as the user can click through to the page, this could be a normal affiliate link so that it would still track.

[Art]

I don't see serious changes in IE7 Beta 1 (support for Alpha Channel
Transparency PNG, Tabbed Browsing, some bugfixes etc), but nothing
about stoping iframe support:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...new_70_sdk.asp .

[Steve Jennings]

I know there was a lot of speculation about iframes a couple of years ago but I don't think there is a real alternative.

We've tried using the <object> tag but this seems to throw up more problems than using iframes which on the whole we've never had a problem with.

I did hear about xframes around the same time as speculation on iframes, does anyone know anything about them?

[5starAffiliatePrograms]

Careful, many programs and networks don't allow iFrames in their TOS.