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by jcranmer 3566 days ago
iframes require explicit sizing, it's hard to adapt the size of an iframe to the size of its contents. Gmail, for example, doesn't use iframes to display message contents.

There is a request to HTML to let iframes take the height of their contents (the main thing anyone wanted from <iframe seamless>, which is now removed from HTML), but it's gone nowhere as of yet.