HTML5′s window.postMessage API

HTML5′s window.postMessage API

11/3/2010

One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API. window.postMessage allows for sending data messages between two windows/frames across domains. Essentially window.postMessage acts as cross-domain AJAX without the server shims. Let’s take a look at how window.postMessage works and how you can use it today in Firefox, IE8+, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. View [...]

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