The person who said that comparing iframes and divs is like comparing pumpkins and glue is truly onto something. But let’s make the comparison more accurate. The author of that comment was implying pumpkins and glue are incomparable. But surely they are not. Perhaps somebody thinks of pumpkin filling and observes that the tools are sticky after he cleans out the pumpkin. That is, they note that there is an overlap of functionality range between pumpkin guts and glue. That person might then think “maybe pumpkin guts would work well to hold together this picture frame that’s coming apart at the seams.

They would be wrong, but not because the two are incomparable: they are wrong because glue makes a much better adhesive than pumpkin guts for most purposes. It’s exactly the same here: divs and iframes have a certain overlap of uses. You shouldn’t use iframes for your general purpose content combining purposes for the same reason you don’t use pumpkin guts for repairing picture frames. However, pumpkin guts make a much tastier pie than glue.

now to the negative comments – get a life muppets – if you have such a strong opinion then write your own page instead of commenting here.

By creating a controversy about “that” (I won’t give him an extra keyword count), he’s gathering lots of unique content on this page about this issue.

So not surprisingly, he is now number 1 as you say. He may be a horrible programer (maybe even on purpose), but he is surely a master marketeer.

Congrats, author!

This article is the first result for “iframe alternative” on google and it does little to provide an alternative for the iframe’s functionality.

A scrollable div tag is nothing groundbreaking to “developers” as you put it. By having this article up you’re polluting our pool of collective wisdom.

I’ll try not to sound rude but you’re a moron.

Son, as many have pointed out, the purpose of an iFrame is to display a third party page in-line with yours. Does this half-assed “alternative” achieve this? No.

You just tried to put some content on a scrollable div. Lol!!
Don’t pollute the Internet and go study some more.

First off people commonly use an iframe to embed external html pages.

We can all write the code for a container but what most people end up on this site (by searching Google) for is to find a way of embedding content without iframes.