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

[Drew Wilson]

BTW, Adam - can you elaborate your specific concerns?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com> wrote:

> Not sure. There's language in the WebIDL spec around prototype objects of
> interface objects, but I'm not sure how window.Worker.prototype is intended
> to relate to
> new Worker().prototype (if at all), based on my 10 minutes of scanning specs.
> -atw
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/23 Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com>:
>> > 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.
>>
>> There's another question, which is where does the prototype chain of
>> the JS object you get out of the worker constructor point?  It might
>> not have anything to do with this Document calculation.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>
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