[whatwg] Workers in HTML5

[Aaron Boodman]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
>  Given that most people don't know the difference between the Window and
>  the global object and the global worker object will already contain a
>  bunch of APIs identical to those on the Window object it seems to me that
>  giving the object and interface a different name doesn't really help.

I'm not necessarily sold on making the worker context be the global
object. I always thought having the Window object be the global object
was a bit unfortunate, myself.

What if we had separate objects:

- the global scope (with all the typical JS globals, and maybe XMLHttpRequest)
- workerContext (with all the worker stuff, plus cookies, location, etc)

Thoughts?

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