- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:17:16 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: WebAppSec WG <public-webappsec@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Say a worker invokes importScripts(). That invokes the service worker. >> In the service worker a field named "client" is exposed in either the >> event or the Request object associated with the event. That "client" >> holds a message channel for the worker. >> >> It's equivalent in a document environment with an <img> or a >> background-image in an associated style sheet. > > I still don't understand. What do you mean by "field"? Like, an IDL > attribute? What do you mean by "message channel", do you mean a > MessagePort? What do you mean by "for the worker"? I don't understand how > any of this would have an equivalent for <img> or CSS. Specifically, an attribute on the event object that returns a client object: https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/#client > Are we talking about a concrete object visible to script, or a spec > mechanism for communication? Both. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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