[whatwg] SharedWorkers and the name parameter

[Mike Shaver]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Jim Jewett<jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Currently, SharedWorkers accept both a "url" parameter and a "name"
>> parameter - the purpose is to let pages run multiple SharedWorkers using the
>> same script resource without having to load separate resources from the
>> server.
>
>> [ request that name be scoped to the URL, rather than the entire origin,
>> because not all parts of example.com can easily co-ordinate.]
>
> Would there be a problem with using URL fragments to distinguish the workers?
>
> Instead of:
>    new SharedWorker("url.js", "name");
>
> Use
>    new SharedWorker("url.js#name");
> and if you want a duplicate, call it
>    new SharedWorker("url.js#name2");
>
> The normal semantics of fragments should prevent the repeated server fetch.

I don't think that it's very natural for the name to be derived from
the URL that way.  Ignoring that we're not really identifying a
fragment, it seems much less self-documenting than a name parameter.
I would certainly expect, from reading that syntax, for the #part to
be calling out a sub-script (property or function or some such) rather
than changing how the SharedWorker referencing it is named!

Mike