[whatwg] Workers feedback

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Gregg Tavares (wrk) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Web pages do not run in a different thread.
> > >
> > > Oh, sorry. I meant they run in a different process. At least in some 
> > > browsers.
> >
> > The goal here is interoperability with all browsers, not just some.
> 
> I guess I don't understand. There are lots of things all browsers didn't 
> do at some point in the past. The video tag. CSS animation. The canvas 
> tag. Etc. We don't say because it hasn't been done yet therefore we 
> can't try or can't spec it.

We do when one or more browser vendors say "we will not implement this", 
which is what happened here.

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