Many remote materials don't allow being used in a iframe
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timbl commented
Many remote materials don't allow being used in a iframe
timbl commented
This is an old problem which stems from some unfortunate the security design of the iframe system. A security threat (a form of click fishing by a malicious embedding site) was fixed by recommending that web publishers is iframe HTTP headers to block their material being used by different origins. At a stroke, this made the web a whole lot less useful and compostable.
Sites which do work include:
- Solid servers
- Google docs
- Medium
Sites which do not include:
- this github issue web page
- Altassian Jira tools
- eff.org
One solution, in Chrome, is to use <webview> which seems specifically designed to solve this problem. See https://developer.chrome.com/apps/tags/webview
A longer term solution is to push for changes in the browsers ...