Re: [whatwg/dom] Proposal: DOM APIs in web workers? (Issue #1217)

It feels like folks think there's a single line in browsers like:

```js
if (isWorkerEnvironment) return;
exposeDOMAPIs();
```

But that isn't the case. It isn't that DOM APIs are simply not-exposed workers, it's that DOM APIs are not designed to work in non-document environments. Allowing DOM APIs to exist in workers will be a massive undertaking in terms of spec and implementation.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's not just flipping a flag.

DOM APIs are massively interlinked with style and rendering. It might be easier to create a new set of interfaces that don't have that issue, and can be cloned/transferred, and upgraded to `HTMLElement` & co within a document context.

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