- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:27:05 +0200
- To: "Jarred Nicholls" <jarred@webkit.org>
- Cc: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>, "public-webapps@w3c.org" <public-webapps@w3c.org>
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:01:47 +0200, Jarred Nicholls <jarred@webkit.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:37:46 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> >> wrote: >> >> Sounds great to me. The ports attribute is basically useless except in >>> this >>> one instance since ports are these days expose as part of structured >>> clones. >>> >>> Avoiding using it in this arguably weird way in this one instance seems >>> like a win to me. >>> >> >> I'd like to have an opinion from WebKit and Microsoft about this >> proposal. >> Can someone comment or cc relevant people, please? >> > > FWIW this to me seems like a good improvement to the intuitiveness. OK. To make things clear, are you OK with making this change in WebKit? > Since > a MessageEvent interface is being used, qualifying that *source* > WindowProxy > is populated is all that's needed? It wouldn't be a WindowProxy, but a port. I'd also make .ports null. The IDL for MessageEvent's source member would need to change type from WindowProxy? to object?. > >> >> cheers >> >> >> / Jonas >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 4, 2012, Simon Pieters wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> In Opera Extensions we use something that resembles shared workers. >>>> One >>>> modification is that the 'connect' event's source port is exposed in >>>> .source instead of in .ports[0], to make it closer to the API for >>>> cross-document messaging. Maybe we should make this change to Shared >>>> Workers as well. >>>> >>>> I think shared workers hasn't seen wide adoption yet, so maybe changes >>>> like this are still possible. >>>> >>>> What do people think? >>>> >>>> currently: >>>> onconnect = function(e) { e.ports[0].postMessage('pong') } >>>> >>>> proposed change: >>>> onconnect = function(e) { e.source.postMessage('pong') } >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Simon Pieters >>>> Opera Software >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> Simon Pieters >> Opera Software >> >> -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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