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 <dim...@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 <pkast...@google.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Dmitry Titov <dim...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev