<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Marius Gundersen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gundersen@gmail.com">gundersen@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM<br>Subject: Re: [whatwg] Using Web Workers without external files<br>To: Michael Nordman <<a href="mailto:michaeln@google.com">michaeln@google.com</a>><br><br><br>What about a javascript: url, like the addressbar and links already accept? for example:<div class="im">
<br><!DOCTYPE html><br>
<html><br>
<head><title>example</title><br>
<script><br>
str = "<script to evaluate>";<br></div>
w = new Worker("javascript:onmessage = function(a){postMessage(a*a)}");<div class="im"><br>
w.postMessage(str);<br>
</script><br>
</html><br><br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Michael Nordman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaeln@google.com" target="_blank">michaeln@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Data urls seem like a real good fit for dedicated workers.<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jonas Sicking <span dir="ltr"><jonas@sicking.cc></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div></div><div>On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <<a href="mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com" target="_blank">jackalmage@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:<br>
>> I think making data: urls is an ok solution,<br>
><br>
> At the moment, data: urls don't seem to be usable with Workers due to<br>
> same-origin restrictions; canvas methods get to special-case data: to<br>
> not be treated as different-origin (and thus dirty themselves), but<br>
> there doesn't appear to be a similar relaxation of the origin rules<br>
> for data: urls in script.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I know, I'm saying that we should relax that.<br>
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/ Jonas<br>
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