- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:12:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jim Jewett wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > Drew Wilson wrote: > >> Per section 4.8.3 of the SharedWorkers spec, if a page loads a shared > >> worker with a url and name, it is illegal for any other page under > >> the same origin to load a worker with the same name > > > > The idea here is that if you have an app that does database > > manipulation, you might want to ensure there is only ever one shared > > worker doing the manipulation, so you might decide on a shared worker > > name that is in charge of that, and then you can be sure that you > > don't accidentally start two workers with that name using different > > copies of a script > > So the name is really intended as a (lightweight) URN, but it can > default to the URL? The name is an opaque string. It can be whatever you want. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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