workers; hixie: Add more explanatory text about postMessage()'s first argument. (whatwg r6903)

workers; hixie: Add more explanatory text about postMessage()'s first
argument. (whatwg r6903)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/workers/Overview.html?r1=1.318&r2=1.319&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6902&to=6903

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diff -u -d -r1.318 -r1.319
--- Overview.html 14 Dec 2011 00:44:53 -0000 1.318
+++ Overview.html 18 Jan 2012 22:57:08 -0000 1.319
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 
    <h1>Web Workers</h1>
    
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-14-december-2011">Editor's Draft 14 December 2011</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-18-january-2012">Editor's Draft 18 January 2012</h2>
    <dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
     <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/">http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/</a></dd>
     <dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
   </dl><p>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications
   Working Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
   specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation track.
-  This specification is the 14 December 2011 Editor's Draft.
+  This specification is the 18 January 2012 Editor's Draft.
   </p><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
   February 2004 W3C Patent Policy</a>. W3C maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42538/status" rel="disclosure">public list of
   any patent disclosures</a> made in connection with the deliverables
@@ -1493,7 +1493,14 @@
   method on <code><a href="#worker">Worker</a></code> objects
   must act as if, when invoked, it
   immediately invoked the method of the same name on the port, with
-  the same arguments, and returned the same return value.<p>The following are the <span>event handlers</span> (and their
+  the same arguments, and returned the same return value.<div class="example">
+
+   <p>The <code title="dom-Worker-postMessage"><a href="#dom-worker-postmessage">postMessage()</a></code>
+   method's first argument can be structured data:</p>
+
+   <pre>worker.postMessage({opcode: 'activate', device: 1938, parameters: [23, 102]});</pre>
+
+  </div><p>The following are the <span>event handlers</span> (and their
   corresponding <span title="event handler event type">event handler
   event types</span>) that must be supported, as IDL attributes, by
   objects implementing the <code><a href="#worker">Worker</a></code> interface:<table><thead><tr><th><span title="event handlers">Event handler</span> <th><span>Event handler event type</span>

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