As a data point, the WebKit implementation (used by Safari and Chrome) doesn't currently enforce any limits (other than those imposed by running out of memory). -atw
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Brian Kuhn wrote: > > > > Is there any limit to the length of message you can send with > > postMessage (HTML5 Cross-document messaging)? > > > > I didn't see anything in the spec about this. I thought this might be > > one area where implementations might end up differing. > > There are probably implementation-specific limits, but HTML tries to not > say what the limits should be, since it's hard to know what they should > be. It might vary from platform to platform and device to device, and will > almost certainly vary over time. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >