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		collaborative on Dec 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The "Cheap" Web Once upon a time side bars and tool bars were made up of iframes that could talk to each other. Those sites wouldn't work today for "security reasons"

YoshiRulz on Dec 19, 2023 [–]

If they have the same origin, then they should still work. But there's always postMessage[1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/post...

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