[webkit-dev] Custom V8 bindings for WebWorkers

[Adam Barth]

Sounds like a reasonable idea.  Would you be willing to file a bug and
write a patch?

Adam


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Marshall Greenblatt
<magreenblatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Applications embedding WebKit and Chromium can use existing C++ APIs
> to dynamically add custom V8 JavaScript bindings. These bindings allow
> closer integration between the script execution environment and the
> host application and are currently supported for page contexts via the
> FrameLoaderClient::didCreateScriptContext callback. However, custom V8
> bindings are not currently supported for WebWorkers. Combining the
> multi-threaded capabilities of WebWorkers with the flexibility offered
> by custom V8 bindings would be an extremely useful feature for some
> applications.
>
> How would people feel about exposing a V8 binding capability for
> WebWorkers? Would adding new callbacks similar to
> Platform::didStartWorkerRunLoop and Platform::didStopWorkerRunLoop be
> a reasonable implementation approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Marshall
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