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Why can’t Twitter Web Intent pages be loaded into an iframe?

23rd October 2013

My answer to Why can’t Twitter Web Intent pages be loaded into an iframe? on Quora

I imagine this is to discourage clickjacking: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

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