[whatwg] Global Script proposal

[Drew Wilson]

BTW, the WorkerGlobalScope.importScript() API blocks the current thread of
execution, which is probably not acceptable for code executed from page
context. So for globalscripts we'll need some way to do async notifications
when the loading is complete, and report errors. We may also want to have
some way to automatically enforce ordering (so if I call
GlobalScript.importScripts() twice in a row, the second script is not
executed until after the first script is loaded/executed, to deal with
dependencies between scripts). The alternative is to force applications to
do their own manual ordering.
-atw

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael Nordman <michaeln at google.com>wrote:

>
>>>
>> Dmitry had a later note which combined creation of the context and loading
>> of the script.  But I suspect one thing people will want to do, in
>> development anyway, is load multiple scripts into a context - like you can
>> in workers.  Which would mean we'd still need a function to load a script,
>> or the only way to load a script would be by also creating a new context -
>> which is much like the serverJS module concept.
>
>
> I think the plan is to provide an importScript(...) function to
> globalScripts as is done for workers...
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#importing-scripts-and-libraries
>
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