[webkit-dev] SharedWorkers alternate design

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

02.06.2009, в 21:10, Drew Wilson написал(а):

> If worker global scope is actually a SharedWorkerGlobalScope object  
> (i.e. the worker is a shared worker), and there are any relevant  
> application caches that are identified by a manifest URL with the  
> same origin as url and that have url as one of their entries, not  
> excluding entries marked as foreign, then associate the worker  
> global scope with themost appropriate application cache of those  
> that match.
>
> I'm not at all certain what "most appropriate application cache"  
> means, but I *think* it means "most up-to-date cache", not "cache  
> associated with the constructing document". I think that's the point  
> that this discussion hinges upon. Michael, do you know what that  
> phrase means?

There's a vague definition of "most appropriate" in the spec:
> Multiple application caches in different application cache groups  
> can contain the same resource, e.g. if the manifests all reference  
> that resource. If the user agent is to select an application cache  
> from a list of relevant application caches that contain a resource,  
> that the user agent must use the application cache that the user  
> most likely wants to see the resource from, taking into account the  
> following:
>
> 	• which application cache was most recently updated,
> 	• which application cache was being used to display the resource  
> from which the user decided to look at the new resource, and
> 	• which application cache the user prefers.

In current implementation, "most appropriate" is just "random", but  
the second test is what I think applies to SharedWorkers most closely.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov


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