[whatwg] Workers

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Nov 13 00:26:38 PST 2008


On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, David Levin wrote:
> >
> > I don't really see the use case for self-reloading. Do scripts 
> > self-reload in general?
> 
> For people who want to update script in SharedWorker, could they do it 
> by making the SharedWorker merely a shell?
> 
> The SharedWorker would create a Worker to do everything.  If a reload is 
> needed, then the SharedWorker closes the Worker and starts it again 
> (just like the dedicated worker method described above).

Yes, that would work.

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