On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, David Levin wrote: >> >> *Summary*: Implementing postMessage with transferable support as >> webkitPostMessage. >> >> *Details*: >> *Spec*: >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/comms.html#posting-messages >> >> This describes window.postMessage and the same is true for Message Ports and >> Worker Context. It doesn't mention Array Buffers but that will be mentioned >> soon and is in the spec that talks about Array Buffers. >> >> Tracking bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64629 >> >> *Plan*: >> 1. Add webkitPostMessage to all of these places to isolate us from possible >> spec changes. It will have the same functionality as postMessage. >> 2. Add the ability to transfer Message Ports. >> 3. Add the ability to transfer Array Buffers. > > After step 2, webkitPostMessage can be renamed to postMessage quite > safely. The spec isn't going to change in a way that breaks you.
I think we should wait and see -- spec changes have caused issues for us in the past (eg. localStorage :-/ ) There is not any substantive harm in prefixing, whereas there can be real problems down the road if we don't prefix. --Oliver > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > _______________________________________________ > 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
