Coothead, Agent002 and myself messed around with the idea of replacing a target page without using iframes and the below is what Agent002 came up with. If anyone can improve upon this to make it cross-browser and validate as XHTML 1.0 strict that would be great!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Object Replacement Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
body
{
background-color:#aaaaff;
}
#one
{
position:absolute;
left:50%;
top:50%;
margin:-150px 0 0 -250px;
}
object
{
width:500px;
height:300px;
border:solid 1px #000000;
}
/*//]]>*/
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
function updateObjectIframe(which){
document.getElementById('one').innerHTML = '<'+'object id="foo" name="foo" type="text/html" data="'+which.href+'"><\/object>';
}
//]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="one">
<object id="foo" name="foo" type="text/html" data="http://www.w3schools.com/"></object>
</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.google.com" onclick="updateObjectIframe(this); return false;">this is an object test not an iframe test</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>
.....Willy