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Everything about Web Messaging

HTML5 API

Web Messaging, or cross-document messaging, is an API introduced in the WHATWG HTML5 draft specification, allowing documents to communicate with one another across different origins, or source domains while rendered in a web browser. Prior to HTML5, web browsers disallowed cross-site scripting, to protect against security attacks. This practice barred communication between non-hostile pages as well, making document interaction of any kind difficult. Cross-document messaging allows scripts to interact across these boundaries, while providing a rudimentary level of security. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Web MessagingA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Web 2.0 technologies and translator training: assessing trainees’ use of instant messaging as a collaborative tool in accomplishing translation tasksInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Internet for DummiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Web Messaging: A New Tool for Patient-Physician CommunicationCited 142 times
  5. Go sideways: Web workerA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Same-origin policyA closely related topic

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