For future compat it would be good to expose to workers information on
what browser is currently being used. This can be used to work around
bugs and lack of features.
In a 'normal' window context the navigator object exposes a set of
properties, such as userAgent, that can be used for this purpose. I
suggest we add something similar to the worker context. The HTML5 spec
defines the following:
interface Navigator {
// client identification
readonly attribute DOMString appName;
readonly attribute DOMString appVersion;
readonly attribute DOMString platform;
readonly attribute DOMString userAgent;
// ... other things not related to identifying the UA
};
I'm not sure how stable this part of the HTML5 spec is, (I know firefox
exposes a whole host of more properties), but it seems like a good set
to start with. We should probably keep the two in sync if the window
context Navigator object changes in the future.
Orthoginally, it seems like at least the 'onLine' boolean on the
Navigator interface would be useful too, and could be exposed at the
same place.
Let me know what you think.
/ Jonas
