Cross Domain Read/Write Using JavaScript
Friday, November 2nd, 2007I stumbled across this video featuring a Google engineer talking about a pure JavaScript solution for communicating information between domains within the IE and Firefox security models (using nested iframes). I haven’t delved deeply into this topic just yet, but I’m thinking that this coupled with Google’s newly released OpenSocial could pave the way for platform independent social media. Could I set up a page on this blog, for example, that when I update it I also automatically update all of my accounts with various social networks? I don’t know, but I will try.
The video mentions a “subspace paper” that describes a similar technique. After a bit of google-fu I’ve located the paper (but haven’t read it yet): “Subspace: Secure Cross-Domain Communication for Web Mashups” (PDF).