[webkit-dev] Question about Constructors in WebKit JS Bindings

[Drew Wilson]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

>
> > I am not even sure all of these should have the same behavior,
> > however. For instance, as I read the Web Workers spec, the lexical global
> > object may be correct thing to use for the Worker constructor.
>
> I looked at the spec briefly.  What leads you to think that?  It's
> probably a bug in the spec.
>

Section 4.5 of the web workers spec reads:

Given a script's global scope o when creating or obtaining a worker, the
> list of relevant Document objects to add depends on the type of o. If o is a
> WorkerGlobalScope object (i.e. if we are creating a nested worker), then the
> relevant Documents are the Documents that are in o's own list of the
> worker's Documents. Otherwise, o is a Window object, and the relevant
> Document is just the Document that is the active document of the Window
> object o.


So it seems to imply that parent document for a worker is derived from the
currently executing script's global scope. I'll ping IanH about this - it
may not be what he intended.

-atw
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