[webkit-dev] GlobalScript in WebKit

[Dimitri Glazkov]

Reading this, I am reminded of a great commentary by Alex Russell,
written nearly 3 years ago:

http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/2007/12/the-w3c-cannot-save-us/

Despite of what I may think about SharedScript, I am certain that
waiting -- whether for standards community or Web developers to
embrace or reject our ideas -- is not the right answer. If we really
want to move the Web platform forward, we can't afford a feedback
cycle this long. Especially, when we have an opportunity for close
collaboration with Web developers of some of the most JS-intensive Web
properties.

Experimenting is great. We should experiment.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't discuss technical merits of the
proposed solution, including more efficient ways of accomplishing the
same thing.

:DG<

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Dmitry Titov <dimich at chromium.org> wrote:
> What I meant was it would be nice, for the sake of discussion, to share the
> experience of real life applications that used SharedWorkers or inter-window
> communications for sharing of significant portions of code and data. Google
> apps may be a partial example but it is a real life example of concrete
> issues with proposed solution that sounds pretty generic and useful for
> other web apps. It is only prudent to take their feedback rather then
> replace it with our own theories about future of the web. No doubt this is a
> new mechanism and it's good to question it, since it has costs even as
> experimental API. Gut feelings vary, some app devs say they need it to solve
> real issues, we dont hear from other app devs who were facing similar issues
> and solved it differently. Seems there is no strong argument to kill it nor
> bless it. Why don't make it experimental and see? If it was possible to
> implement it in extension or plugin, we would run it as another Gears-like
> experiment, but it can not be done in a plugin... I believe there could be
> good arguments that simply didn't surface yet, and hope to hear them.
> Dmitry.
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Dmitry Titov <dimich at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW, could you tell what's the 'course' that would be reverted?
>>
>> Meaning, "before we decide that SharedWorkers and inter-window
>> communication are insufficient, and a further proposal should be entertained
>> by the standards community".
>> PK
>
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