Re: [whatwg] Inter-window communication beyond window.postMessage()

2009-09-15 Thread Sidney San Martín
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: 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

Re: [whatwg] Inter-window communication beyond window.postMessage()

2009-09-15 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Jeremy Orlow wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch 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

Re: [whatwg] Inter-window communication beyond window.postMessage()

2009-09-14 Thread Drew Wilson
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

Re: [whatwg] Inter-window communication beyond window.postMessage()

2009-09-14 Thread Ian Hickson
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