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Subject: Re: [whatwg] BroadcastChannel in Firefox Nightly
From: Janusz Majnert <jmajnert () gmail ! com>
Date: 2015-01-14 21:29:35
Message-ID: CAOeF0exCeoJAjYw8GVuEL3fFqPPWk77mPqQQVvvM5nKZH6STDw () mail ! gmail ! com
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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
>
> --
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