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Message Channels

Category
Realtime / Communication
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 2)
Intent stage
None

Summary

A messaging system that allows documents to communicate with each other regardless of their source domain, in a way designed to not enable cross-site scripting attacks.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MessageChannel https://dev.opera.com/articles/window-postmessage-messagechannel/#channel

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