HTML5 in Action

Chapter 4. Messaging: communicating to and from scripts in HTML5

Chapter 4 at a glance

Topic	Description, methods, and so on	Page
Server-sent events	Creating events in the browser from the server:
	Creating an EventSource()	111
	Listening to server events with addEventListener()	111
WebSockets	Two-way, event-driven communication:
	Writing applications using WebSockets	116
	Messaging on the client side	125
Cross-document messaging	Communication between scripts in different windows:
	Sending messages with postMessage()	126
	Receiving messages with onmessage()	126

Look for this icon throughout the chapter to quickly locate the topics outlined in this table.