[whatwg] <eventsource>/RemoteEventSource wierdness

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Michael Nordman wrote:
>
> > One key feature that IMHO is needed in this area is sharing of events 
> > between pages/windows
> 
> A cross-page event broadcast facility is co-mingled with the DOMStorage 
> corner of the spec (see 5.11.1.5 The storage event).
> 
> It may be nice to carve that out as a separate facility that can be 
> utilized in the absence of storage.

Shared workers are the expected way to do this at this point.

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