[whatwg] Workers and addEventListener

Drew Wilson atwilson at google.com
Thu Oct 15 10:48:32 PDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

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> There's no start() to call, since there's no explicit pointer to the
> MessagePort in dedicated workers.
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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.


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