x-doc-messaging.json

{
  "title":"Cross-document messaging",
  "description":"Method of sending information from a page on one domain to a page on a different one (using postMessage)",
  "spec":"http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/comms.html#crossDocumentMessages",
  "status":"wd",
  "links":[
    {
      "url":"https://raw.github.com/phiggins42/has.js/master/detect/features.js#native-crosswindowmessaging",
      "title":"has.js test"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis/web-messaging/methods/postMessage_%28window%29",
      "title":"WebPlatform Docs"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://72lions.com/2011/05/cross-origin-communication-with-html5",
      "title":"Article and demo"
    },
    {
      "url":"http://html5demos.com/postmessage2",
      "title":"Simple demo"
    },
    {
      "url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.postMessage",
      "title":"MDN article"
    }
  ],
  "bugs":[
    {
      "description":"Internet Explorer 8 and 9, and Firefox versions 6.0 and below only support strings as postMessage's message. References: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/window-postmessage-messagechannel/#crossdoc, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.postMessage"
    }
  ],
  "categories":[
    "JS API"
  ],
  "stats":{
    "ie":{
      "5.5":"n",
      "6":"n",
      "7":"n",
      "8":"a",
      "9":"a",
      "10":"a",
      "11":"y"
    },
    "firefox":{
      "2":"n",
      "3":"y",
      "3.5":"y",
      "3.6":"y",
      "4":"y",
      "5":"y",
      "6":"y",
      "7":"y",
      "8":"y",
      "9":"y",
      "10":"y",
      "11":"y",
      "12":"y",
      "13":"y",
      "14":"y",
      "15":"y",
      "16":"y",
      "17":"y",
      "18":"y",
      "19":"y",
      "20":"y",
      "21":"y",
      "22":"y",
      "23":"y",
      "24":"y",
      "25":"y",
      "26":"y"
    },
    "chrome":{
      "4":"y",
      "5":"y",
      "6":"y",
      "7":"y",
      "8":"y",
      "9":"y",
      "10":"y",
      "11":"y",
      "12":"y",
      "13":"y",
      "14":"y",
      "15":"y",
      "16":"y",
      "17":"y",
      "18":"y",
      "19":"y",
      "20":"y",
      "21":"y",
      "22":"y",
      "23":"y",
      "24":"y",
      "25":"y",
      "26":"y",
      "27":"y",
      "28":"y",
      "29":"y",
      "30":"y",
      "31":"y"
    },
    "safari":{
      "3.1":"n",
      "3.2":"n",
      "4":"y",
      "5":"y",
      "5.1":"y",
      "6":"y",
      "7":"y"
    },
    "opera":{
      "9":"n",
      "9.5-9.6":"y",
      "10.0-10.1":"y",
      "10.5":"y",
      "10.6":"y",
      "11":"y",
      "11.1":"y",
      "11.5":"y",
      "11.6":"y",
      "12":"y",
      "12.1":"y",
      "15":"y",
      "16":"y",
      "17":"y"
    },
    "ios_saf":{
      "3.2":"y",
      "4.0-4.1":"y",
      "4.2-4.3":"y",
      "5.0-5.1":"y",
      "6.0-6.1":"y",
      "7.0":"y"
    },
    "op_mini":{
      "5.0-7.0":"y"
    },
    "android":{
      "2.1":"y",
      "2.2":"y",
      "2.3":"y",
      "3":"y",
      "4":"y",
      "4.1":"y",
      "4.2":"y"
    },
    "bb":{
      "7":"y",
      "10":"y"
    },
    "op_mob":{
      "10":"y",
      "11":"y",
      "11.1":"y",
      "11.5":"y",
      "12":"y",
      "12.1":"y",
      "14":"y"
    },
    "and_chr":{
      "0":"y"
    },
    "and_ff":{
      "0":"y"
    },
    "ie_mob":{
      "10":"a"
    }
  },
  "notes":"Partial support in IE8-9 refers to only working in frames/iframes (not other tabs/windows). Also in IE 9 and below an object cannot be sent using postMessage. Partial support in IE10 refers to <a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16226924/is-cross-origin-postmessage-broken-in-ie10\">limitations in certain conditions</a>",
  "usage_perc_y":72.66,
  "usage_perc_a":20.87,
  "ucprefix":false,
  "parent":"",
  "keywords":"",
  "shown":true
}