Dear readers,
If you were a regular visitor to my blog, you might have noticed that I was using frames to display all the link-exchange chicklets until some time ago. I discontinued the use of frames, because they don’t display by default in Internet Explorer or IE (which still seems fairly popular).
I was hosting my frame HTML document at Google pages (as Blogger does not allow HTML file uploads) and it made my blog loading very slow for two reasons:
1. There were a large number of chicklets and some javascript snippets in the frame.
2. Every time my blog was accessed, stuff had to be loaded from google pages as well which is a completely different server/domain.
All I wanted was to use a blogspot domain to host this frame HTML and I found out that it can be easily done.
See these images to know what I am referring to:
One simply needs to create new blog and strip it of its entire template code except for a few necessary sections. See image to note what needs to be retained:
Basically, everything within the <head> </head> tags can be removed except for the skin tags (which need not contain any data if you want a frame). In addition, there must be at least one b:section tag in the <body> portion of the template.
Once you are ready, simply copy-paste your HTML code into the body portion of the template and save the template. For example I had created a simple list of links (different from linklists in page-layout section). You can access this page by clicking here.
Once you modify the template in this manner, this is how the page layout section will look like:
To embed a frame into your blog’s sidebar, use this code:
<object data=”[Your HTML Doc's URL]” width=”275″ height=”300″ type=”text/html”></object>
Example:
This frame, in action, can be seen here.
Once I had done all this, I thought that IE would display the frame without any issues now, but it appears the IE does not like the <object> tag at all. Even after getting a frame to load from the blogspot domain, I could not get IE to display the frame by default.
Suggestion: Use the Firefox (adsense link) in my blog’s sidebar to download this beautiful browser if you are on IE 
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