- From: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:27:10 -0800
- To: Nadim Kobeissi <nadim@nadim.cc>
- Cc: Anthony Nadalin <tonynad@microsoft.com>, "public-webcrypto@w3.org" <public-webcrypto@w3.org>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
No. While access to the DOM is prohibited, the notion of Events (as explored in HTML) also derives from a normative reference on the DOMEVENTS specification, and is core to the Web Workers specification itself (namely, the onmessage event) On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Nadim Kobeissi <nadim@nadim.cc> wrote: > Does this dependency affect the API's capability of working within a web > worker? > > > NK > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Anthony Nadalin <tonynad@microsoft.com> >> wrote: >> > Why is there a DOM dependency in the API specification? >> > >> > >> >> Because this is the _Web_ Crypto API, tasked with delivering an API >> suitable for conforming user agents. >> >> Among the many concepts we borrow are the notion of Events, Event >> Targets, dispatching events, and the lifetime model that is inherently >> linked to the DOM and HTML specifications. >> >> This dependency is reflected in Section 4.1 of our charter. >> >
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