- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:33:56 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Drew Wilson wrote:
>
> The intent of the spec is fairly clear that addEventListener("message")
> should not start the message queue dispatch - only setting the onmessage
> attribute does that:
> The first time a MessagePort <#messageport> object's
> onmessage<#handler-messageport-onmessage> IDL
> attribute is set, the port's port message queue <#port-message-queue> must
> be enabled, as if the start() <#dom-messageport-start> method had been
> called.
Yes, but the dedicated worker construction algorithm explicitly enables
the message ports' message queues.
> In fact, the only reason for the existence of the MessagePort.start()
> method is to enable applications to start message queue dispatch when
> using addEventListener().
>
> I don't have a strong opinion as to whether we should change the spec,
> though. I suspect not, given Anne's email. We should instead change the
> example in the workers spec to call start().
There's no start() to call, since there's no explicit pointer to the
MessagePort in dedicated workers.
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