Using an IFRAME in a Page Set as a Home Page

[David C. Holley]

Does Outlook 2007 disable the IFRAME HTML element when it appears on a page
that is set as the Home Page for a folder?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, iframes work for folder Home Pages as then the Internet Explorer engine
for rendering HTML is used and not the Word engine.

 

[VanguardLH]

Does Outlook 2007 disable the IFRAME HTML element when it appears on a page
that is set as the Home Page for a folder?

iFrames get blocked in Outlook (which is NOT a web browser despite that
it has *some* support for HTML-formatted e-mails - which are not
supposed to be web pages for a site). This is actually a Restricted
Sites measure (in that security zone's default High setting), and
Outlook should be configured by default to use the Restricted Sites
security zone when rendering HTML-formatted e-mails.

The restriction was established back around 2002 when IE was updated.
While the update altered the behavior of Outlook it was actually a
change to the Restricted Sites security zone. See:

http://windowsitpro.com/microsoftex...e-blocks-iframe-in-outlook-html-messages.html

According to this old article, Outlook will block content within
iFrames. I thought the block was only if the content within the iFrame
was off-domain from the web page. Well, that means the iFrame's content
must be code within the HTML document that is proffered as the e-mail
document, not a link to some site.

Also see:

http://www.iframehtml.com/iframe-security.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/18/using-frames-more-securely.aspx

 

[David C. Holley]

I'm not referring to the ability of Outlook to present HTML formated emails,
but rather the ability to set a Home Page for a Folder.

 

[VanguardLH]

VanguardLH wrote ...


I'm not referring to the ability of Outlook to present HTML formated emails,
but rather the ability to set a Home Page for a Folder.

Are you trying to use an HTML web page to replace the contents of a
folder when it is selected (and hide any items that reside within that
folder)? Or are you trying to use that web page to reconstruct how the
items within that folder are displayed? Is this web page a local or
non-local file or a URL to a web server that proffers a web page?

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=102029&seqNum=7

I haven't found an article that specifically mentions that iFrames are
not allowed in the web page used for the folder's home page but there
are security concerns because Outlook's security model is not enforced
on those web pages used for folder home pages:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2003/HA011402901033.aspx

Maybe something in Outlook's View Control documentation had the info you
want (probably of no value to you if you aren't trying to use a web page
to manipulate items stored under the folder where you are trying to use
a home web page for it):

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=831F957F-3190-48DA-A099-2BDBC7397623