HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers: Listing 2.
Using the postMessage method for data retrieval.
window.addEventListener(
"message",
retrieveData,
false
);
function retrieveData (msg)
{
if (msg.origin == "http://localsite.com")
{
var custData;
$.getJSON(
"Customers/" + msg.data,
function (data)
{
msg.source.postMessage(data, msg.origin);
}
);
}
}
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Peter Vogel is a system architect and principal in PH&V Information Services. PH&V provides full-stack consulting from UX design through object modeling to database design. Peter tweets about his VSM columns with the hashtag #vogelarticles. His blog posts on user experience design can be found at http://blog.learningtree.com/tag/ui/.