[whatwg] Workers in HTML5 (was: postMessage apply(), pipe, etc.)

[Aaron Boodman]

Well, as long as you've brought it up, I was working on a proposal too:

http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/wiki/HTML5WorkerProposal

- a


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Dimitri Glazkov
<dimitri.glazkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since postMessage API is looking more an more like the Gears worker
>  messaging API (or better), can we go one step further and introduce
>  workers into the HTML5, defined as invisible windows with limited
>  capabilities:
>
>  WorkerWindow openWorker(in DOMString url);
>
>  with:
>
>  interface WorkerWindow {
>
>    // for consistency with Window
>    readonly attribute Window window;
>    readonly attribute Window self;
>
>    // caps
>    readonly attribute ClientInformation navigator;
>
>    // session/local storage
>    readonly attribute Storage sessionStorage;
>    ...
>
>    // database stuff
>    Database openDatabase(...)
>
>    // to open new worker windows
>    WorkerWindow openWorker(in DOMString url);
>
>    // messaging
>    void postMessage(...)
>
>    // some events
>    attribute EventListener onabort;
>    attribute EventListener onload;
>    attribute EventListener onunload;
>  }
>
>  or something like that?
>
>  :DG<
>