Re: Workers

• From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:06:41 -0700
• To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• CC: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, public-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <48893531.7090709@sicking.cc>

Ian Hickson wrote:
>> (why it is "window" btw?)
> 
> Because it is implemented by the Window object.

I don't think this is true. Our DOM implementation (which includes the 
Window object) is not thread safe. We are using a separate object as the 
global scope for the worker threads.

> For legacy reasons the 
> global object is generally called 'window'.  To allow easy porting of code
> to workers, we have kept the same names.

I actually found it intensely confusing that it is called Window* since 
it is a separate object from the Window object.

I think the name WorkerGlobalScope or some such would be much more 
intuitive.

/ Jonas

Received on Friday, 25 July 2008 02:24:49 UTC