- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:30:17 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > This is something that have been in the back of my brain for a few days: > How do we deal with the user navigating a way from a page if there's a > Worker in the middle of some very long running script? Right now the spec says that closing becomes true, and if the worker doesn't clean up promptly, the "kill a worker" algorithm is invoked and the script is killed, the unload handler is handled, and the script is killed again if that doesn't end prompty either. > Also note that the the presence, or lack of, fastback cache doesn't > really make a difference. Pages are eventually going to get purged from > the fastback cache, so it just pushes the problem to a point a little > later in time. Yup, the spec deals with this already too. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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