iFrame

(1) (I-frame) A keyframe in interframe compression. I-frames are fully intact video frames, from which subsequent frames are derived. See interframe coding.

(2) A digital video format from Apple. See Apple iFrame.

(3) (Inline FRAME) An HTML structure that allows another HTML document to be inserted into an HTML page. The iFrame is set up as a window frame of a specified size that scrolls along with the rest of the page, but the iFrame's content can itself be scrolled if it is larger than the iFrame window.

Unlike the regular HTML frames function, which is used to divide the screen into multiple windows, the iFrame is typically used to insert an ad or small amount of text in the middle of a page. See frames, XFrames and HTML.

An iFrame in a Frame

The HTML frames feature divides the screen into partitions, but the iFrame is an independent frame that would scroll off the screen like any text or graphics on the page.

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"The popularity of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets and information terminals like the Hikari iFrame, continues to increase," said Jean-Claude Broido, President of McAfee Japan.

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Mr Rimmer, whose firm is called Personal Web Design, says that iFrame has gone from strength to strength since it was launched and has been adopted by thousands of individuals and SMEs across the country, including shops, cafes, writers, artists, accountants, mechanics and bed and breakfast businesses.

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GFI's Email Security Testing Zone aims to help administrators keep abreast of the latest email threats and ensure that their networks are protected against them, The new tests check if an email client is vulnerable to emails that use the Iframe Remote and Object

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Hikari iFrame is the original tablet device of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation.

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This dedicated processing engine turns a product measurement sensor into an iSensor (intelligent sensor) that independently performs all measurement tasks in the same vein, each iFrame (intelligent frame) uses its D-BRIC to generate cross-web profiles, perform controls, and work with other iFrames to manage more complex processes.

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This flaw many be exploited through email by using an iframe tag in an HTML email or a window, open within a <Xcript> tag, allowing Internet Explorer to automatically access the exploit eml file.

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Masas detailed the bug in a blog post and it apparently stems from the use of iFrames, which are Inline Frame codes to embed content from pages like YouTube.

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