[whatwg] WebWorkers and images

[Benjamin Poulain]

Hi,

On 01/07/2011 12:24 PM, ext Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
> I assume you've discussed this before, but couldn't find any record. Please
> let me know if there is a document somewhere that explains why WebWorkers
> have so little access to browser features.

I did not see the original discussion but for me this make sense in the 
scope defined for web workers:

"This specification defines an API that allows Web application authors 
to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main 
page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the 
coordination mechanism."

Since it is a _message passing_ concurrent system, you should not have 
to care about concurrent access to objects.

To have image manipulation in workers, you would need a way to pass 
images as messages between the main thread and a worker thread. If it is 
not already possible, I guess that could be a nice addition to the 
specification.

cheers,
Benjamin