[whatwg] Using Web Workers without external files
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed Oct 14 03:21:48 PDT 2009
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> I'd like a way to use workers without having to use an external resource. This
> would allow easier testing, mashups, small standalone apps, and so forth.
I agree that it makes sense to support this on the long run. However, for
the short run, I think using eval() is sufficient.
If people feel strongly about this, my proposal would be to use sicking's
idea of just allowing data: URLs. Specifically, making step 3 of the
Worker() constructor (not SharedWorker) allow data: URLs as a special
case. That's an easy thing to do, and it's not like we'll ever use data:
URLs in this context for something else.
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Marius Gundersen wrote:
>
> What about a javascript: url, like the addressbar and links already accept?
That wouldn't have quite the right semantics -- they'd be evaluated in the
content of the original script (or in a blank execution context, dependeng
on how we defined it), and then their return value would be executed...
that's one level of indirection too far.
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