I have a situation where I have web apps on two different servers, where App1 contains App2 in an IFrame. Any links in App2 can have target="_parent" attribute, which allow those links to open in the top window. However, I can't find any way to get the same behavior in Javascript. I found this page, which claims that the child frame can call javascript on the parent frame using parent.foo(), but that doesn't seem to work in IE8 or FF3.5. I found this SO question which explains how this security model works. But it seems odd that I can't do in Javascript what I can do with a simple <a> tag. Is there any workaround to this at all? I know about window.postMessage, but (as far as I know) this only works in Firefox.
Example
server1/test.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function myCallback(foo) {
alert(foo);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="http://server2/test2.htm" width="400" height="150"></iframe>
</body></html>
server2/test2.html
<html><body>
<script>
function clickit() {
parent.document.location = "http://www.google.com"; //not allowed
parent.myCallback("http://www.google.com"); //not allowed
}
</script>
<p>This should be in an iFrame!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com" target="_parent">normal link (works)</a></p>
<p><a href="javascript:clickit()">javascript link</a></p>
</body></html>
