- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:22:01 -0500
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Gregg Tavares (wrk) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Web pages do not run in a different thread. > > > > > > > > Oh, sorry. I meant they run in a different process. At least in some > > > > browsers. > > > > > > The goal here is interoperability with all browsers, not just some. > > > > I guess I don't understand. There are lots of things all browsers didn't > > do at some point in the past. The video tag. CSS animation. The canvas > > tag. Etc. We don't say because it hasn't been done yet therefore we > > can't try or can't spec it. > > We do when one or more browser vendors say "we will not implement this", > which is what happened here. > And having every *thread* running in a separate process wouldn't exactly be a sane model, anyway, and that's what this would actually require. -- Glenn Maynard
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