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This section is specific to a certain type of user agent, and only within specific conditions. It has absolutely nothing to do with HTML or XHTML, or with the DOM. The focus of the section is communication between applications, and the only connection I can find to HTML, XHTML, and the DOM, is that the applications also render HTML. Section 8 includes material that exceeds the bounds for what a reasonable person would assume be covered in a specification devoted to HTML, XHTML, and the DOM. However, the section does include material of interest to a subgroup of HTML UAs, and as such should be preserved in a separate specification. Since there are dependencies between this section and objects covered in Section 6, a reasonable person could assume a merger between these two sections into a separate specification.
Cross-document messaging and channel messaging could probably be split into a separate spec and likely would be welcomed by WebApps WG. I don't think any other part of the spec depends on the contents of section 8. Section 8 does depend on Window and on the origin concept, but so does XMLHttpRequest, and that hasn't been a problem.
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4548. Check-in comment: split out communications section http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4547&to=4548
(In reply to comment #3) > Checked in as WHATWG revision r4548. > Check-in comment: split out communications section > http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4547&to=4548 > The communication section would be better in the Web apps group. And I believe you need to discuss publishing Communication as a FPWD with the group, first.
I'm mainly re-opening this bug, until there's a decision made about where the split-out section is going.
That's not how the process works.