[whatwg] Workers and addEventListener
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Thu Oct 15 14:24:39 PDT 2009
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.
--
Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL
http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,.
Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
More information about the whatwg
mailing list