Inter Window Communication With JavaScript
I've been working on an inter window communication javascript library based on javascript built for Vox. This allows browser windows or tabs on the same domain to communicate and cooperate. One use case for this is for comet connections. Due to self imposed browser limitations, multiple connections to the same domain are limited to two connections and comet connections would produce odd behavior when multiple windows or tabs are opened on the same domain. This is the first step in efficient use of a single comet connection across multiple tabs or windows. This library would be used with another project of mine: Cometd: The Scalable Comet Framework
Check out my demo: Inter Window Communication
Note: Currently this only works in Firefox 2 and IE 5.1+
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We had the same problem with multiple comet-enabled tabs and thought the same! Surfing the net to see if its possible to communicate multiple tabs from the same domain using javascript we've found this!
Not only seems to answer our question, but addresses the same problem. Unfortunately the demo is not working and the code is not available. Can you please reupload it somewhere? Or send it by email? Have you done any recent development on that?
Thanks!
I can port this code to Extjs. If you'd like to keep this project alive, we can work on it together. See my profile for my contact details.