[webkit-dev] SharedWorkers alternate design

[Michael Nordman]

> "the most appropriate app cache should be used"

A little off topic... the spec says that in regard to appcache
selection in general, its not specific to workers. That squishiness
should probably be better defined at some point.

2009/6/2 Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com>:
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> Basically, the spec says "the most appropriate app cache should be used"
> (which apparently we're free to interpret however we like), and that the
> SharedWorker should have the ability to update its current app cache. I
> think that the spec is fine.
> As for our implementation - I don't know how appcache is integrated with the
> loader code. Can I proxy a load to a given document, but still specify which
> version of the app cache I want to use? If so, then we don't need to change
> the
> design. If not, we either need to add this support, or delay exposing appcache APIs to SharedWorkers until we add the ability to load data from worker context without going through a document object (probably required for persistent workers).
> -atw
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> 2009/6/2 Alexey Proskuryakov <ap at webkit.org>
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>> 02.06.2009, в 21:59, Michael Nordman написал(а):
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>>> Per the spec, shared workers are a distinct "browsing context". In
>>> appcache terms, they have a distinct "appcache host". We have to come
>>> up with a design that accomplishes that.
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>>
>> OK, I was getting a feeling that we talked about different things. Andrew,
>> do you agree that a different design is needed, or is this something we
>> should push into the spec instead?
>>
>> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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