- 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.
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