Shared workers do not depend on HTML documents for resource loading. I think the webkit impl may have it cobbled together that way at the moment, but thats per-happen-stance, not per-the-spec. Shared workers effectively establish a new top-level-browsing-context all unto themselves. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org> wrote: > > 07.11.2009, в 10:47, Michael Nordman написал(а): > > > I've been wondering if SharedWorkers should have a means of establishing >> an appcache similar to how pages can via the <html manifest='x'> mechanism. >> >> My mental model is that a shared worker is very much like a top-level page >> with respect to appcaches, but that means for a shared worker to >> express/establish its appcache is missing. >> > > Don't shared workers depend on HTML documents for network loading? I'm not > sure how they can have independent caches, if they just ask a document to > fetch a resource for them. > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > >
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