Re: Some additions to Web Workers

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, João Eiras wrote:
> 
> It seems Mozilla extended the interface WorkerUtils in their 
> implementation with the atob/btoa functions.

I've done the same in the spec now.


> I find them quite useful in that context, and would also encourage 
> adding escape, unescape, encodeURI, decodeURI, encodeURIComponent, 
> decodeURIComponent and many of the other global functions in the DOM 
> environment which don't have any specific bindings to the DOM itself or 
> manipulate documents, as that was a concern due to globals that are 
> internally used by the DOM in some browsers.

These should already be there as they are defined by ECMAScript itself.

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