Re: Adopting postMessage and MessageChannel from HTML5?

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> On 1/9/2010 23:05, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> >> On 1/9/2010 09:00, Ian Hickson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Would this working group be interested in adopting the 
> >>> Window.postMessage and MessageChannel/MessagePort features from 
> >>> HTML5? It was recently split from the main HTML5 spec into a 
> >>> subspec, but some people have suggested it might be best in the 
> >>> webapps group. I'd be happy to continue editing it, it would just 
> >>> mean a change in the headers, as with Web Storage, etc (and would 
> >>> similarly remain in the WHATWG "complete" spec).
> >>>       
> >> How do you plan to handle the dependency on the "structured cloning" 
> >> algorithm? Leave it as a back pointer to HTML5 or also extricate (& 
> >> tidy up)?
> >
> > There are complex dependencies amongst a number of specs here -- Web 
> > Workers, Web Storage, HTML5, and this hypothetical draft all relate to 
> > each other. I don't think it's possible to sanely define the features 
> > in a way that is completely self-contained (well, short of putting 
> > them all in one spec, but that isn't popular at the W3C!). Assuming 
> > people are ok with it, therefore, I propose to leave the structured 
> > cloning algorithm in HTML5, along with the Window object.
>
> That works. You can remove some trivial dependencies by introducing an 
> abstract interface that captures the cloneability of native/host 
> objects. One benefit being that there is no longer the need to 
> update&sync HTML5 Chapter 2 for every object added by individual specs.

Yeah, we could do that. If it starts getting difficult to keep things 
updated, I'll do that. For now it's pretty same still (one change a 
quarter, at most).


> To wit, 2.8.5 is still using FileData and not Blob. I bet updating this 
> is in your backlog though :)

It apparently got fixed. :-)

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