New tabs using that ServiceWorker may be open or may open while you're blocking. Baaaaad slowwww baaaad. On 29 Jul 2014 19:36, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Jake Archibald wrote: > > On 29 July 2014 19:24, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Jake Archibald wrote: > > > > > > > > Over in ServiceWorker we want to get all of the APIs available to > > > > workers (FormData, indexeddb, URL etc), but not the synchronous > > > > interfaces such as > > > > http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#readingOnThreads > > > > > > Why not the synchronous APIs? > > > > ServiceWorker needs to be able to handle all of the fetches of a page > > load, for instance. Sync APIs result in loading them in series. There's > > never a good reason to be using a sync API in ServiceWorker. > > Sure there is. If you know you're only going to get one request, and that > request is for the data in the local database, then you just get the data > and return it. > > Are you also going to ban long-running scripts in service workers, the way > we do for the main thread? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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