- From: Jake Archibald <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:18:58 -0700
- To: slightlyoff/ServiceWorker <ServiceWorker@noreply.github.com>
- Message-ID: <slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/678@github.com>
ServiceWorkers should be able to create dedicated workers to do processing work that would otherwise hold up the thread. With canvas-in-workers proposals starting to mature, this could include image pixel manipulation, but may also include complex diffing etc. Multi-tab apps sometimes use a SharedWorker to ensure only one connection is held to the server, and that worker distributes the data to the appropriate clients. A ServiceWorker should be able to connect to an existing ServiceWorker instance or create a new one, to make use of this single connection. [Mozilla have a use-case](https://github.com/slightlyoff/BackgroundSync/issues/70#issuecomment-92445609) for their email app. Workers and SharedWorkers are [currently tied to documents](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/workers.html#dom-sharedworker), changing this to also allow ServiceWorkers shouldn't be too much of a problem spec-wise. Since creating a Worker/SharedWorker forms a new client & will select its own registration, workers created within a SW may trigger `onfetch` within the same ServiceWorker. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/678
Received on Tuesday, 14 April 2015 10:19:25 UTC