learning from forum posts

every developer and designer has at some point received that final, golden puzzle piece from a long-dead forum post. however, this is not always the case.

i am trying to obtain information about showing/hiding content based on the information in a URL. five thousand google searches later, i find a forum post with my EXACT parameters. there are code examples and everything. perfect.

then the post ends in “i only have the iframe version so far.”

my heart sinks.

there is only one reply, things aren’t looking good.

“Why iframe isn’t good enough for you? It was made with purpose to load fully html document.”

oh, oh… internet. iframe will never again be good enough for me.

massive thanks to dustin for dipping into my day and being like ‘here’s what you need, yo!’ in some other arrangement of words. yay!