I am trying to design a web application. Because of the way I am doing it, it is difficult to put all of the information onto one page (multiple database look-ups). I have created a proto-type that uses iframes: one for <nav> one for <aside>, one for the main bit, etc. It can not format the iframes, as I want them (sizing). Apparently, iframes can't do what I want.Is there a way to get the same affect: What seems to be a single web-page, but in reality a composite of many.Solutions that I have considered:I am doing iframes wrong: tell me how to do them correct.I should be using a different tag: tell me which.Use a compositing reverse-proxy on server (maybe converts iframes to in-line html).Do compositing using javascript, on client (I have been trying to avoid javascript on most pages, as it is sometimes disabled, for security reasons.)xslt, on client: I just thought of this when writing previous bullet point, and have no idea, yet, if it can do it.I have tried the first 2, and can not find anything about the 3rd.I am using couchdb, I do not want to include to much into each view as it will trigger cache invalidation for the whole page, if something changes. Because of filter ranges, I think this will happen even if it is data that is not relevant for the page.
composit web-page from multiple requests
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