[whatwg] Installed Apps

Michael Davidson mpd at google.com
Tue Jul 28 21:26:16 PDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Michael Nordman<michaeln at google.com> wrote:
> What if a sharedContext isn't gauranteed to be a singleton in the browser. A
> browser can provide best effort at co-locating pages and sharedContexts, but
> it can't gaurantee that, and the spec respects that.
> The lesser gaurantee is that all directly scriptable pages (those from a
> given set of related browsing contexts) WILL share the same sharedContext
> (should the refer to it).

Best effort seems reasonable to me. Also, many large web apps
(including Gmail) don't allow themselves to run in an iframe, which
makes the problem much simpler. Only toplevel pages of the same domain
need to be in the same process.

Michael



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