- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:39:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- cc: Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com>, Kenneth Russell <kbr@google.com>, David Levin <levin@chromium.org>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Dmitry Lomov <dslomov@google.com>, ben turner <bent.mozilla@gmail.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>, Travis Leithead <Travis.Leithead@microsoft.com>
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
> If data appears both in the .ports array and the .data property, then
> people will be tempted to create protocols which only work if the array
> buffer is transferred, i.e. if the receiver only looks in .ports. I.e.
> people will likely end up with equally ugly solutions like:
>
> postMessage('vend-reply', [createClone(arraybuffer)]);
Yeah, that's a very good point.
It really seems like part of the problem here is that ports and
arrayBuffers are quite different (in that one will always want to be
transferred, but for the other you might want to sometimes transfer and
sometimes not).
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