[whatwg] Workers and addEventListener

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Drew Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> >
> > There's no start() to call, since there's no explicit pointer to the 
> > MessagePort in dedicated workers.
>
> The example in the worker spec refers to shared workers, which *do* have 
> an explicit port, and do not automatically start the port.
> 
> Search for addEventListener in this document: 
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#shared-workers
> 
> And you'll see what I mean.

Ah, yes, for shared workers you need to call start() (or use .onmessage).

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