As we developers know, there are a couple of failsafes to help us repair "broken" pages:
- …/noredirect/true
- …/norender/true
I would like to propose a third failsafe: …/noiframe/true
Problem
Both pages and forum comments can contain iframes. These iframes in turn have the capacity to redirect parent frames to other pages. If somebody uses an iframe of this nature in a forum comment, it becomes nearly impossible to undo this (how can you delete a comment if you keep getting redirected from it). Using either of the "norender" or "noredirect" failsafes above will not assist you in a forum comment.
Proposition
Using a third failsafe, the …noiframe/true failsafe, should make iframes appear much in the same way that Redirects appear:
This is an iframe that has been disabled by the URL command.
This in turn would mean that forum comments with poorly constructed iframes can be edited and removed.
James, this makes me wonder, should the ability to use iframes in comments be restricted in a similar way that posting links is now restricted..based on karma? I'm not sure exactly what you are saying but it sounds like the potential for abuse. In any case, I voted this up because it sounds like a very good idea to me. I wouldn't want that to happen, even though I'm not a developer.