[Tickets #10092] Re: Portal button does nothing in Dimp iframe mode

[bugs at horde.org]

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. THIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS NOT MONITORED.

Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10092
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Ticket             | 10092
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | Portal button does nothing in Dimp iframe mode
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 5.0.3
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2011-05-18 08:12) wrote:

> However this part you are not going to like - the Portal doesn't  
> work correctly with iframes on.  And I'm not sure we can  
> realistically make it work either without adding a bunch of hackish  
> code.  The problem is that any link within the iframe that  
> eventually opens up IMP again (e.g. the newmail folder summary) will  
> cause IMP to be fully reloaded within the IFRAME.  So you end up  
> with 2 sidebars.

Didn't you move the old dynamic portal to Horde at one point?

> Which begs the question - why don't we just get rid of iframe  
> entirely?  It doesn't work properly, and won't ever work properly,  
> unless the proper framework is implemented in Horde (*NOT* IMP).   
> Until that happens, it is going to be prohibitively difficult to try  
> to support.

We need it for preferences for example, and it was a requirement of  
SAPO (and makes sense for everyone using IMP, or Kronolith for that  
matter, as the main application) to stay in the ajax view when  
displaying other non-ajax Horde apps.