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I've been searching for the last *"16Hrs"* hours for how to embed foriegn web pages into geeklog... The external pages plug in just doesn't cut it (its great but not for the job)... How in the world can I go about avoiding iframes completely... Please I need o repeat that (**HOW DO I AVOID IFRAMES!!!**) and yet still be able to embed a **whole** web page into geeklog???

It is so unprofessional and childish like to rant the way I am ranting and just for the record my frustrations have nothing to do with Geeklog itself (its great!) I am just dying between a rock and a hard place here!!! **"16Hrs"** and I am pulling up NOTHING!!!!

Please if you haven't the answer give me IDEAS!!, SUGGESTIONS!!, HYPOTHESIS!!, INPUT OF ANY KIND!!

Every time I get closer to solving it I find myself farther from the truth...

I am sorry for my B******* but I needed a place to vent my anger and frustration with iframes... I hope you understand... I feel a little better now... I'm sorry...

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While playing with what sorts of HTML I could include in a message I managed to get a logo to appear overtop of the site logo via a CSS url() call. Neat thought it was a neat hack personally but now I've got potential clients ("suits") who are concerned about having porn added to their sites.

There is an example in this message, you should be able to see an example image just under the Geeklog logo in most browsers.

It only takes a few minutes of playing with this to see how much stuff you can do with it. (Using position:fixed; can be really annoying)

I was just going to add a bunch of eregi() calls but thought I'd ask around here first for opinions/suggestions/comments on filtering out stuff like this without crippling GeekLog's HTML inclusion facility.

Editors note: here is the example code:
style="position:absolute;top:100px;left:100px;
width:200px;height:101px;z-index:100;
background-image:url('http://www.example.com/someimage.gif');
border:0;margin:0;padding:0;display:block"

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Lucas Thompson
sardu@mac.com