Re: Refactoring SharedWorkers out of Web Workers W3C spec

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>wrote:

> On 12/11/13 6:39 AM, ext Simon Pieters wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 22:09:38 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  We at Mozilla just finished our implementation of Shared Workers. It
>>> will be turned on in the nightly releases starting tomorrow (or maybe
>>> thursday) and will hit release on April 29th.
>>>
>>
>> Excellent.
>>
>
> Yes indeed!


Indeed!


>  So if we are only reason we're doing anything here is lack of a 2nd
>>> implementation, then we might already be good.
>>>
>>
>> The premise here appears to be that Presto doesn't count. Why?
>>
>> Presto has been shipping shared workers for 3,5 years now (introduced in
>> Opera 10.60). As far as I can tell Presto-based Opera products match the
>> definition of "implementation" in the CR exit criteria.
>>
>
> One of the issues here is  `missing data`. The first Call for workers Test
> Results was sent over a half-year ago and another one a few weeks before
> WebApps' Shenzhen meeting. Despite those requests, the workers
> implementation report [IR] remains empty.
>
> Simon - would you please add results for Presto?
>
> Kinuko - would you please add results for Chrome (as you said you would do
> in Shenzhen [Mins])?
>

Done.


> Travis - would you please add results for IE?
>
> Another issue is that during the related discussion in Shenzhen, I don't
> think this new info from Jonas was available. Jonas - can someone please
> run the tests on FF Nightly (see [IR] or the test suite [Tests])?
>
> Depending on the test results, it might make sense to (re)consider if it
> still makes sense to create a spec of without shared workers.
>
> -Thanks, ArtB
>
> [IR] <http://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/Interop/WebWorkers>
> [Tests] <http://w3c-test.org/web-platform-tests/master/workers/>
> [Mins] <http://www.w3.org/2013/11/12-webapps-minutes.html#item08>
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