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RemoteDocumentMessaging

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Overview

This document describes a proposal for discovering and communicating with "remote" documents. In particular, this proposal lets a web page communicate with another document even if the web page does not have a direct script connection to that document.

Use Cases

The user opens the same word processing document hosted by a document editing web site in two different browser windows. The document editing web site wants to ensure that edits in one window a reflected in the other window without needing to round-trip through the server (e.g., because the user is offline). Unfortunately, the documents are in different units of related browsing contexts, which means the two documents cannot form a direct script connection. Using remote document messaging, the two documents can discover each other and update each other about edits performed by the user.