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Bug 15942 - Based on my experience and from reading many questions on the Web, this API is seriously flawed. It treats cross-domain iframes the same as same-domain iframes, except that almost every operation on contentWindow is an error.
Summary: Based on my experience and from reading many questions on the Web, this API i...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 18045 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-02-09 16:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-01-30 20:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-02-09 16:28:49 UTC
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/web-messaging.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#introduction-10
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#introduction-10

Comment:
Based on my experience and from reading many questions on the Web, this API is
seriously flawed. It treats cross-domain iframes the same as same-domain
iframes, except that almost every operation on contentWindow is an error.

Posted from: 2620:0:1000:1b01:7aac:c0ff:feb3:65b0
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.3 Safari/535.19
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 16:07:24 UTC
This bug was cloned to create bug 18045 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-27 03:48:24 UTC
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Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-01-30 20:32:36 UTC
*** Bug 18045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***