- From: Janusz Majnert <jmajnert@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:29:35 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Janusz Majnert <j.majnert@samsung.com>
Got it! Thanks 2015-01-14 20:07 GMT+01:00 Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>: > 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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