[whatwg] Workers and addEventListener

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Drew Wilson wrote:
>
> To be absolutely clear (since there's some confusion about whether we 
> are talking about explicit MessagePorts, or about implicit ports for 
> dedicated workers). Are you saying that this:
> 
> var channel = new MessageChannel();
> channel.port1.postMessage("hi mom");
> channel.port2.addEventListener("message", function(event)
> {alert(event.data); }, false);
> 
> Should result in an alert dialog being fired?

Nope, this case should not get an event fired.


> I would not be opposed to changing the spec to include enabling a port's 
> message queue when addEventListener("message") is invoked.

I'm reluctant to make addEventListener() do magic.

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