[whatwg] SharedWorkers and the name parameter

Jonas Sicking jonas at sicking.cc
Tue Aug 18 13:22:33 PDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Darin Fisher<darin at chromium.org> wrote:
> I agree.  Moreover, since a shared worker identified by a given name cannot
> be "navigated" elsewhere, the name isn't all that synonymous with other
> usages of names (e.g., window.open).  At the very least, it would seem
> helpful to scope the name to the URL to avoid the name conflict issue.
> -Darin

Technically, that can already be done by using the current the current
URL as the name.

/ Jonas


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