Requesting improved IFrame support for WinJS apps

Question

I'm receiving an increasing amount of complaints from users of my (otherwise very successful) RSS News Reader app. The issue is that as a HTML5/WinJS app I have to rely on an IFrame to display the full post content when the user choses to view a feed item in Browser. 

At the current rate of sites adding Javascript based Frame-Busting and/or X-Frame-Options HTTP headers in order to prevent click-jacking, this problem will only get worse over time.

In order to keep HTML5 apps that display external HTML content useful over time, improvements to the IE IFrame element when used within an app would be greatly appreciated.

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weichhold.com

Answer 1

Hi,

Maybe you could just load the part of the content winjs.xhr .

#WinJS.xhr function

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br229787.aspx.

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Answer 2

I'm talking about full web pages here including external script resources. That would never work.

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weichhold.com

Answer 3

I strongly oppose Song Tian's answer to marked to be correct becaue it is clearly not. No thought has been giving about the real problem.

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weichhold.com

Answer 4

I have run into this issue as well for my app and am seriously considering switching to c#. This is a breaking limitation for me

Answer 5

We are running into same problem.  Microsoft, you need to fix this.  What is the point of having an iframe when I cannot load any site I want.  We do not want to move to C# for our app. At least let us wrap the C# WebView and put it into WinJS.  This currently does not work either.

Answer 6

Just wanted to circle back to the thread.
Windows fulfilled this feature request by enabling the WebView (Found in XAML c#) to WinJS apps:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn301831.aspx

:-)