- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:24:39 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Drew Wilson wrote:
>
> To be absolutely clear (since there's some confusion about whether we
> are talking about explicit MessagePorts, or about implicit ports for
> dedicated workers). Are you saying that this:
>
> var channel = new MessageChannel();
> channel.port1.postMessage("hi mom");
> channel.port2.addEventListener("message", function(event)
> {alert(event.data); }, false);
>
> Should result in an alert dialog being fired?
Nope, this case should not get an event fired.
> I would not be opposed to changing the spec to include enabling a port's
> message queue when addEventListener("message") is invoked.
I'm reluctant to make addEventListener() do magic.
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