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"Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again." (sir-stig) 04/13/2015 at 14:50 • Filed to: Kinja'd!

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Does anyone with more programming know-how know if it's possible to make a website like a kinja blog "load" linked content within it's own page? As in basically have both the kinja page and the linked content register a page view?

I've noticed (and am guilty of it myself) annoyance whenever a website like R&T for example posts part of an article on kinja, which requires you to then leave and load the full story on their site. It would seem to me that something that allows the author site to receive the page view, while getting the pull from a website like Jello Picnic would be amenable to both parties.

So does anyone here have insight on whether that is possible?

Edited for fails.

MarquetteLa > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 04/13/2015 at 15:10

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It's not that publications want page views, it's that they want ad impressions. If R&T is just serving its own content here on Kinja, Gawker is getting ad impressions ($$$), not R&T.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 04/13/2015 at 15:17

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This should be a standard feature on all cars.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > MarquetteLa 04/13/2015 at 15:17

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Could you do a page within a page though? So ads would be seen?

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 04/13/2015 at 15:18

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Haha yeah that would be handy for tailgaters

jariten1781 > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 04/13/2015 at 15:25

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That would be a really bad practice. Think if you have a Jelopicnic page with a R&T page that has that same Jelopicnic page in it. Now infinite recursion. That is bad.

MarquetteLa > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 04/13/2015 at 15:25

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Yes, it's possible with iframes if the Kinja team wants to do it. But I guarantee you it won't happen. Lots of usability and formatting issues.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > jariten1781 04/13/2015 at 15:43

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Haha well surely there would be a way to say "if source page is x, don't load if main page is x"

Gonemad > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 04/13/2015 at 15:44

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Do not feed your Porsches with spicy chilli.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Gonemad 04/13/2015 at 15:48

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DO! Do feed your Porsche's spicy chillies!

jariten1781 > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 04/13/2015 at 15:54

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I imagine there is, but that'd rely on the coders always remembering that piece...which isn't really a good assumption.

Also, it was a fairly common design trait in the 90s to load up full websites in different frames. There were a lot of reasons it fell out of favor. One of the most fun ones was people making password trawling landing pages. They'd set up a site that loaded an official website in one frame that had a separate frame loaded from their server with just a username/password block. So the people would click on a link or mistype a website (something like wellfargo.com, missing the 's') and think they were logging into the official thing and get screwed. Pretty much everyone stopped using frames that loaded external stuff after a couple big hooplas. I don't even know if they're still in the standard today...been a while since I landed on a frameset page.