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IE8 Cross-Domain Request Support Demo

January 15, 2009

Adrian Bateman of the IE8 team has posted a video showing how to use IE8’s new XDomanRequest object to request data from a URL that is not in the current HTML page’s domain. He also shows how to make an (almost) equivalent cross-domain call in a beta build of Firefox 3.1.
This makes use of the [...]

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Cross-Domain Transport with Window.Name

July 28, 2008

In the fall of 2006 I was wrestling with VS debugging JavaScript in IE and Venkman in Firefox teasing out problems and holes in the cross-domain channel library we were building for Windows Live and the Windows Live Contacts Control.
One of the most aggrevating aspects of debugging cross-domain JavaScript is that JavaScript debuggers do not provide the same degree [...]

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Silverlight Supports Cross-Domain Calls

June 25, 2008

In getting back up to speed with Silverlight, and in particular the new Silverlight 2 beta 2, I’ve been surfing through the many quickstart topics on various web sites. While skimming “Receiving Plain XML Messages with Silverlight” these words lept out at me:
note: The WebClient class does not currently support cross-domain calls.
Say what?
The article then [...]

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