[whatwg] Combining the DedicatedWorker and SharedWorker interfaces
Jonas Sicking
jonas at sicking.cc
Wed Nov 5 15:19:48 PST 2008
Ian Hickson wrote:
>> * Remove the port property from the SharedWorker interface and give it
>> a postMessage and onmessage just like dedicated workers have.
>
> I really don't like this. With (Dedicated)Worker it makes sense because
> both sides bury the underlying message channel and ports and so things
> like closing the port, or whether the port is active, are hidden on both
> sides. But with SharedWorker, if we only bury it on one side, there is a
> lack of symmetry that IMHO is going to lead to all kinds of issues and
> confusion. I really don't like that. If people start sending one side's
> pipe down another channel, we can end up with a situation where a
> SharedWorker object really represents a port that has nothing to do with
> the worker anymore.
It's not really that different from what you have today where a
myWorker.port object can send messages to something that isn't a worker
at all.
It also removes the issue where the .port property on a shared worker is
readonly but dead.
/ Jonas
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