[webkit-dev] Issues with Workers

2009-09-28 Thread tali garsiel
Hi, There are two issues with workers that seem not compatible with the HTML5 spec. 1. Workers can't open the database ("openDatabase" doesn't work) 2. "event.data" is assumed to be a string and you cannot send a complex object. I checked it on Safari 4 and Chrome. Is it going to change? Firefox

Re: [webkit-dev] Issues with Workers

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Campbell
Hi Tali, Regarding event.data, there is a chromium issue filed for this here: http://crbug.com/21299 And a recent architectural discussion on this mailing list: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-September/009882.html I haven't been able to make any progress on it lately due to b

Re: [webkit-dev] Issues with Workers

2009-09-28 Thread Mark Rowe
On 2009-09-28, at 10:23, Chris Campbell wrote: Hi Tali, Regarding event.data, there is a chromium issue filed for this here: http://crbug.com/21299 Given that this would seem to be an issue at the WebKit level, is there a bug in WebKit bug about this issue? - Mark smime.p7s Descriptio

Re: [webkit-dev] Issues with Workers

2009-09-28 Thread Drew Wilson
There is this: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22878 The issue extends beyond workers - it's anything that supports the postMessage() API (window objects, MessagePorts). As was pointed out previously, there have been some design discussions in this area, but I haven't seen any patches yet

Re: [webkit-dev] Issues with Workers

2009-09-28 Thread Jeremy Orlow
A first pass could just handle anything that can serialize to JSON. I believe this is more or less what FireFox supports at the moment and gets you half the way there. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Drew Wilson wrote: > There is this: > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22878 > > The is