On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Sidney San Martín wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
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> > 4. Open a SharedWorker and send a MessagePort to the other window.
>
> I'm not too familiar with shared workers, but I read through the spec
> and it looks like they suffer from the
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Sidney San Mart�n wrote:
> > >
> > > The cross-document messaging API solves a lot of problems and is
> > > overall an Awesome Thing, but requiring a reference to the target
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
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> 4. Open a SharedWorker and send a MessagePort to the other window.
I'm not too familiar with shared workers, but I read through the spec
and it looks like they suffer from the SOP (as Drew mentioned).
(LocalStorage also suffers from this,
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Sidney San Martín wrote:
> >
> > The cross-document messaging API solves a lot of problems and is overall
> > an Awesome Thing, but requiring a reference to the target window is
> > hugely limiting. When a a window wants t
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Sidney San Martín wrote:
>
> The cross-document messaging API solves a lot of problems and is overall
> an Awesome Thing, but requiring a reference to the target window is
> hugely limiting. When a a window wants to talk to another window and
> didn't create it, there are ba
Agreed - I've always felt like having to have a reference to a window would
be an obstacle.
I feel obliged to point out that cross-domain SharedWorkers might be another
option for two completely unrelated windows to interact, although the
suggestions I've heard for APIs for x-domain access seem to
The cross-document messaging API solves a lot of problems and is
overall an Awesome Thing, but requiring a reference to the target
window is hugely limiting. When a a window wants to talk to another
window and didn't create it, there are basically three options:
1. window.open with a window