- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:13:08 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > Chapter: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#processing > has following: > .... > #5 Let script's script execution context (and thus also global object) be > worker. > #6 Let script's script browsing context be owner browsing context. > #7 Let script's script document context be owner document. > .... > > But[1] tells us that: > "A browsing context is a collection of one or more Document objects, and one > or more views." > > Intention is to isolate Worker so it is not clear what #6 and #7 mean. They mean exactly what they say; Workers are "isolated" in a JavaScript sense but this doesn't preclude them being associated with a particular JavaScript browsing context. > Also it is not clear how method: > > MessagePort createWorker(in DOMString scriptURL); > > downloads that script. If it is an asynchronous operation then it should > be some event. If it is synchronous operation than it should be some > timeout or so defined. It is downloaded in step 1 of the "run a worker" algorithm. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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