- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:07:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Janusz Majnert <j.majnert@samsung.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Janusz Majnert wrote: > On 14.01.2015 14:01, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Andrea just landed the last patch for the BroadcastChannel API: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966439 > > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/comms.html#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts > > > > Assuming everything sticks it'll start appearing in Firefox Nightly > > soon. We thought we'd give everyone a heads up we're doing this since > > it hasn't been discussed much. > > From quickly skimming the linked spec it looks like the same > functionality (minus sending objects) is already available with the use > of WebStorage: > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#the-storage-event If you look at the bug that introduced this feature, you'll see that avoiding abusing localStorage was in fact the original motivation for this API. :-) https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22628 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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