PresentationConnection

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This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

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The PresentationConnection interface of the Presentation API provides methods and properties for managing a single presentation. Each presentation connection is represented by a PresentationConnection object. Both the controlling user agent and receiving user agent MUST implement PresentationConnection.

Instance properties

PresentationConnection.binaryType: Returns either blob or arrayBuffer. When a PresentationConnection object is created, its binaryType IDL attribute MUST be set to the string "arraybuffer".
PresentationConnection.id Read only: Provides the presentation connection identifier.
PresentationConnection.state Read only: Returns the presentation connection's current state.
PresentationConnection.url Read only: Returns the URL used to create or reconnect to the presentation.

PresentationConnection.close(): Closes the current connection and sends a PresentationConnectionCloseEvent to close event.
PresentationConnection.send(): Sends either binary or text data between a controlling browsing context and a presenting browsing context.
PresentationConnection.terminate(): Terminates the current connection and fires terminate event.

close: Fired when there is a call to PresentationConnection.close().
connect: Fired when a presentation connection is established.
message: Fired when there is a call to PresentationConnection.send().
terminate: Fired when there is a call to PresentationConnection.terminate().

Specification
Presentation API # interface-presentationconnection

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