[whatwg] Web Workers and postMessage(): Questions

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:47:14 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
> I'd prefer to stick with JSONic object graphs for now. Correctly
> cloning more complicated object structures is a fair bit more
> complicated, so I'd like to get solid interop on the basic cases
> first. Also, the idea is that postMessage() should be sending object
> structures that are essentially pure data. JSON seems to capture
> pretty well the idea of a pure data structure in JavaScript.

Well, it doesn't cover e.g. ImageData, which postMessage() allows for, and which seems useful to have. (No informed opinion on allowing cycles.)


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