I have developed an application that has a list of items
in one frame; when one clicks on an item it does something
in another frame (loads an image).
This used to work fine
in all browsers, including Chrome 3; now it still works fine
in Firefox but
in recent versions of Chrome (I believe since 4) it throws this error:
Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL (...) from frame with URL (...).
Domains, protocols and ports must match.
This is obviously a security "feature" but is it possible to get around it?
Here is a simple test:
index.html:
<html>
<frameset cols="50%,50%">
<frame src="left.html" name="left"/>
<frame src="right.html" name="right"/>
</frameset>
</html>
left.html:
<html>
<body>
<a href="javascript:parent.right.test('hello');">click me</a>
</body>
</html>
right.html:
<html>
<body>
<script>
function test(msg) {
alert(msg);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The above works
in Firefox 3.6 and Chrome 3 but
in Chrome 5 it throws the above error...
Edit:
added the @cols attribute to the frameset element
in fact it works
in Chrome if and only if the
pages are served with the http protocol (and from the same domain) but my problem is when
pages are local and served from a file:// protocol. Then it works
in Firefox (all versions) and Chrome 3 but not Chrome 5 (I don't have Chrome 4 so I'm not shure about that specific version (and don't know if it's even possible to download a specific Chrome version?) -- but for Chrome 5 I'm very sure it doesn't work).
