I want to embed a part of a web page from a third party on to my web page. Easy, right, that’s what iframes are for! Only I don’t want to embed the whole foreign page, just a 200×200 pixel chunk in the middle of the page. You can crop 200×200 with the width and height parameters, but there’s no clean way to scroll to the middle of the embedded page. The simple Javascript scrollTo fails because the third party page in the iFrame does not have the same origin as the main page.
There’s a work around: doubling up on iframes. Your main page embeds an iframe to a shim page on your own server. The shim page in turn just embeds an iframe of the foreign page. The master page can scroll the shim page since they’re in the same origin. Ugly, but it works.
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