What is the benefit of using the iframe nested inside of an object tag? I believe that a simple iframe should work fine in all browsers. - Paul Buchheit

The post said it was because of IE, is that not the case? - Mike Bracco

It said that the iframe was for IE, but I think the iframe should work for all browsers, so why bother with the object tag at all? - Paul Buchheit

My research led me to believe that the object tag was the standards-compliant tag to be using, while iframe is "on its way out." - Michelle McGinnis

Paul: hmmm not sure - speaking of IE - did you see this cartoon, pretty funny http://thenextweb.com/2009... - Mike Bracco

Unfortunately I didn't capture where I read that but it was freaky enough (implying that iframes would be stripped due to iframe attacks on sites) to make me wrap the iframe in an object tag. I'll keep trying to find the source. - Michelle McGinnis

Michelle, I very much doubt that the iframe is going anywhere. I actually didn't even realize that the object tag could be used to embed an iframe :). As for security, anything that would strip iframes would most likely strip object tags as well, though if there's any difference I'm curious to learn more. (do frame breakers work inside object tags?) - Paul Buchheit

Paul: True 'nuf. I need to do more research. Most of my coding for building43 was done under a normal (aka crazzzzy) deadline and I was accepting the stuff that worked at face value. I'll see what I can find out and amend the post as needed. Thanks again for all your help with the styling! - Michelle McGinnis

Michelle - Great article by the way - we've all been wanting it since we saw it last week. I think it's a great tool, and a great way to integrate Friend Feed. - Robert Freeze

For people who use Squarespace as the platform for their site. They are releasing some pretty nifty lifestream modules soon - http://lifestreamblog.com/squares... I am curious as to whether I will keep the FF widget or use what Squarespace releases. - Mike Bracco

Cool the FF Team just put out the embed widget at the bottom of the page here :: http://friendfeed.com/embed ... it was not there this morning :-) .... thanks @Brent and FF Team. - Jason Cronkhite

Glad to see it posted to the community :D. Thanks FF team. Stylesheet usage is new to me! - Mark Essel

Brilliant! Thanks very much for this. - Andrew Eglinton

Michelle - Nice work, thanks for being kind enough to share. - Jim Connolly

Yeah I finally upgraded the embed widget last night on my site: http://chrisheath.us - took a bit of css tweaking and some hair pulling, but eventually I got it working - my main problem is that I want a fluid design - if anyone has suggestions on how to better code my page please contact me via the feedback link on the site - Chris Heath

IFRAME isn't on its way out: it's part of HTML5 and XHTML2, and it's not deprecated. The only reference I could find to its possible non-use was from 1997, when the W3C said its initial introduction was "arguable" since there was already the OBJECT tag: http://www.w3.org/TR... - Mark Trapp

I think the conception that iframes are deprecated stems from the recently discovered security issue of "clickjacking" http://www.mydigg.in/2009... A lot of people are going to be moving away from using frames and resorting to "frame busting" techniques which are going to be included as a meta tag declaration in the next update of most major browsers. - Lindsay has no Buzz.

Thanks, this is really helpful and definitely looks better than that old delicious feed on my blog. Check it out: http://blog.scott.willeke.com - scott willeke