[whatwg] Channel Messaging (is it broadcast allowed?)

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, JOSE MANUEL CANTERA FONSECA wrote:
> 
> I'm playing with Channel Messaging in Opera 10.60. I'm trying to connect 
> to the same port more than one browsing context in order to do message 
> broadcasting. It seems it is not working.
> 
> Are message ports intended to be used for broadcasting i.e. more than 
> one browsing context listening to incoming messages?

More than one browsing context can listen to a specific MessagePort 
object, but if you clone the MessagePort object, the original one becomes 
orphaned and stops receiving messages.

If you would like more help, I recommend sending a link to the page in 
question to the help at whatwg.org mailing list:

   http://www.whatwg.org/mailing-list#help

HTH,
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