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+
[this is good] love it. I haven't looked under the hood yet nor kicked the tires, but it drives nice :)
Posted by: raf | December 26, 2006 at 01:10 PM
[this is good] Cool stuff.
Posted by: kregger | March 10, 2007 at 05:55 PM
[esto es genial] Hi there,
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!
Posted by: sargue | January 08, 2008 at 08:23 AM
I fixed the link in the post. Here is the IWC Demo
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.
Posted by: Xantus | January 08, 2008 at 10:38 AM
[c’est top] Any idea how this could be made even more "cross-browser"? I love the concept for what it brings to more complex web applications.
Posted by: Jean-Marc | June 19, 2008 at 06:59 AM
[this is good] David I'm very much interested to know how this can be possible coz I'm
looking out for the same thing. I see this is a very old blog post but
i don't find a way to do it. If you can publish the code then it would
be a great help to comet newbies like me.
Posted by: cuser | February 01, 2010 at 04:53 AM
You can view source and get the js files from there. It's all old code.
Posted by: Xantus | February 01, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Notice there is solution for any browser with javascript enabled.
This one is limited.
Check it there http://bytes.com/topic/javascript/insights/913606-javascript-communication-between-browser-windows-tabs#post3662701
Posted by: Peter | June 14, 2011 at 04:28 PM
Or even better, see this demo http://theprivateland.com/bncconnector/demo.htm
Posted by: Peter | June 14, 2011 at 04:33 PM