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		rendaw 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why can't HTML alone do includes? Interaction between elements in different iframes is very restricted.

danans 11 months ago [–]

IIRC, you can communicate entire JSON objects between an iframe and it's host frame with PostMessage.

The host can then act as a server for the iframe client, even updating it's state or DOM in response to a message from the iframe.

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