- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:22:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > But intention is to isolate Worker from the Document and rest of the > DOM, correct? No, the intention is to isolate the script running inside the worker from the Document object, not to isolate the actualy implementation. > It appears as I am getting term "browsing context" wrong. > Is it something that can be expressed in terms of formal interface definition > like: > interface BrowsingCtx { ... } > or is it some abstraction behind the scene? A browsing context is basically a tab or window or iframe. > I think that term 'thread' shall be used in the specification instead of > "completely separate and parallel execution environment". It was suggested that using the term "thread" would imply state sharing, since most threading mechanisms do indeed share state. Here it's more like a separate process than a separate thread. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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