Simon Willison’s Weblog

window.name Transport. The cleverest use of the window.name messaging hack I’ve seen yet: Dojo now has dojox.io.windowName.send for safe, performant cross-domain messaging.

Posted 23rd July 2008 at 4:25 pm

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