Re: Using ArrayBuffer as payload for binary data to/from Web Workers

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011, Kenneth Russell wrote:
>>
>> Jonas's suggestion of adding another argument to postMessage, and
>> Gregg's generalization to declare it as an array of objects to be
>> transferred rather than copied, sounds good.
>
> We could change make MessagePort and ArrayBuffer both inherit from a
> [NoInterfaceObject] empty interface, and then make the MessagePort[]
> argument of the various postMessage() methods instead take an array of
> this new interface, and then just have ArrayBuffer and MessagePort both
> define how to be cloned in this way.
>
> If people like this approach I can work with Kenneth on getting the
> wording right in the various specs.

This sounds good to me; in the interest of moving things forward, are
there any objections?

-Ken

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