- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:11:46 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > > > 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. > > Sorry but what exactly is that "browsing context"? Is it set of objects, > interfaces or just such a smell? > > (For some reasons I found difficult for myself to understand language > used in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/ ,sorry again) The Workers spec assumes knowledge of the terminology in HTML5. In particular, anything with a faint thick green underline is a term defined in HTML5. For example browsing contexts are defined here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#browsing1 > > It is downloaded in step 1 of the "run a worker" algorithm. > > Is it list item #1 in: > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#processing ? > > If "yes" then for me it contains only this: > > "Attempt to fetch the resource identified by url. > If the attempt fails,.... > If the attempt succeeds, then ...." > > Question is: how that Attempt is made exactly? > Synchronously or asynchronously? I don't know what the distinction would be -- there's nothing else running on that execution content at that time, how could one distinguish an asychronous fetch from a synchronous one? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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