Tag Archives: cross-domain

new transport for IE6/7, as fast as postMessage, and with NO dependencies!

Posted on May 21, 2010 by oyvind.kinsey

Until now, if you wanted hi-speed communication in IE6/IE7 you would have to resort to the NameTransport, but this has its drawbacks It makes a ‘rattling’ sound when it navigates the documents It requires a html-file, name.html, present on both … Continue reading →

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easyXDM and prototype.js, how to make it work

Posted on April 2, 2010 by oyvind.kinsey

This is no longer needed from v2.1.0 as easyXDM now feature tests for a valid JSON implementation. Cross-domain RPC was made easy by the introduction of easyXDM, but there are still obstacles to be found, especially when using libraries like … Continue reading →

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Creating a bookmarklet with easyXDM

Posted on March 27, 2010 by oyvind.kinsey

Bookmarklets has been common for a long time and are quite easy to make. But one thing that you often see when examining the code behind bookmarklets are that most of the code is  just to facilitate simple cross domain … Continue reading →

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Supported browsers

Posted on March 23, 2010 by oyvind.kinsey

One of the goals of easyXDM is to support all browsers that are in common use, and to provide the same features for all. One of the strategies for reaching this is to follow defined standards, plus using feature detection … Continue reading →

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Adding easyXDM to your project, including debugging tools

Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin

To be able to use easyXDM in you project, either as a provider, consumer or both, there are a few things that you need to do.

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Setting up your first Socket

Posted on March 17, 2010 by oyvind.kinsey

The first thing you should do to familiarize yourself with the library is to set up a simple easyXDM.Socket class, which will allow cross domain communication with messages going both from the consumer to the provider, and the other way … Continue reading →

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Sending and receiving messages

Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin

The base functionality delivered by easyXDM is to, without any server-side dependencies,  pass string based messages between two domains in a fast, reliable and secure way.

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Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)

Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin

As fun as transferring simple strings from one domain to another might sound; is this really what you need? While some applications (like the resize iframe example) might need nothing more, most often what you want is to be able … Continue reading →

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Cross-domain AJAX

Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin

As mashups are getting more and more common a problem that keeps arising is how to include data from external domains in a safe way.

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Resize iframe based on content

Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin

One thing that many are using easyXDM (and other cross-domain hacks) for, is to dynamically change the size of embedded iframes based on the contents size, so as to avoid the scrollbars. With easyXDM this is really easy:

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