Re: [Bug 17415] (JSWorkers): JavaScriptAudioNode processing in workers

Wei James <james.wei@Intel.com> on Bugzilla:

> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415
> 
> --- Comment #31 from Wei James <james.wei@Intel.com> 2012-06-20 01:53:58 UTC ---
> (In reply to comment #28)
>> I definitely favor helping developers "do the right thing", so I also prefer
>> focusing exclusively on JavaScriptAudioNode processing in workers (instead of
>> the main thread). Regardless, we all seem to agree that support for doing
>> processing in workers needs added. 
>> If we do decide to support both, I suggest requiring some sort of explicit
>> opt-in for running on the main thread. This way developers would at least be
>> less likely to gravitate to it by default.
> 
> +1


We seem to be converging towards a decision here. Would it help reach a stronger consensus if we had more feedback on the idea (allow both processing in workers and outside, make workers a default and main-thread with an explicit opt-in) from the developer community? 

A blog post or two may help - if anyone wants to draft a summary of the discussion we should be able to give you access to the W3C blog.

Olivier