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Many a year ago, Jeff Rouyer won the Netscape DHTML competition with his flying dude interface and put DHTML on the map. The winning entry, apart from being 3D in design which up until that point had not been seen on the Web, also had something that was quite uncharacteristic of Web pages.

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Not long after that, he thought of the idea of using an IFrame technique where content would be loaded into a hidden IFrame and then sucked back out and into a div element. This was the genesis of what today is known as Remote IFrame Scripting. Remember we are talking close to a decade ago which is a good indicator of how far ahead of the curve Jeff was at the time.

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apart from being 3D in design which up until that point had not been seen on the Web, also had something that was quite uncharacteristic of Web pages.


Most of what you see today o

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As the popularity of Internet Explorer 4 gained it became increasingly important to Jeff to maintain cross browser compatibility and initially created a series of document.write() in an external file to allow content to be imported into a pre-existing html file. Obviously this was r

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