[webkit-dev] GlobalScript in WebKit

[Drew Wilson]

I believe that the offline gmail team uses the Gears flavor of shared
workers and is planning to migrate to the HTML5 version once DB access is
supported from within worker context in shipping browsers.

So I guess that Gmail would be a candidate app that has asked for both.

-atw

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Dmitry Titov wrote:
>
>  I don't think it's correct to say that SharedWorkers are not useful and
>> "we need a SharedScript instead". They are different things and can address
>> different use cases. For example, SharedWorker is great to make sure there
>> is only one 'app instance' running - exactly because it is shared
>> inter-process, it can be used as a "inter-process synchronization primitive"
>> to control how many app instances are opened. SharedScript is a container
>> for data and code shared between pages that comprise a "web application" and
>> normally run in the same process. As in native apps, whether or not multiple
>> instances of the app can run at the same time depends on the author of the
>> app, and can be done either way.
>>
>
> Are there any Web apps at Google or elsewhere currently using SharedWorker?
> Would any of them still use it if they could switch to SharedScript? Has any
> app team specifically requested support for *both* SharedWorker *and*
> SharedScript? (Serious questions, since the justification for SharedScript
> is largely based on Web developer feedback.)
>
> Note: if SharedScript was really globally shared it could be used to
> implement shared workers - simply have the SharedScript manage the per-app
> Workers.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
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