[whatwg] Suggestions on postMessage (6.4, cross-document messaging)

Aaron Boodman aa at google.com
Tue Jul 10 21:38:56 PDT 2007


On 7/10/07, Jeff Walden <jwalden+whatwg at mit.edu> wrote:
why not instead change the API to |postMessage(message, otherWindow)|,
such that sending a message to another window involves getting the
other window and calling |postMessage| on *your* window?

This is a great idea. We were thinking of implementing PostMessage in
Gears and it would be much easier if that were the API.

- a



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