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

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com> wrote:
> 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?

No, this sounded good to the people here at mozilla that I talked with
about this.

/ Jonas

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