Another thing that seems like an oversight in the spec is that the spec currently says that BroadcastChannel should be exposed in Window context. We should also expose it in Worker contexts.
/ Jonas On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > It would be very useful to be able to send structured data, including > Blobs, through the BroadcastChannel API. > > This is something we've seen any time we've done storage or message > passing, that one of the first thing authors ask for is to not have to > do JSON serialization/parsing manually. The ability to pass > ArrayBuffers and Blobs is somewhat less commonly asked for, likely > because binary data is less often used, but seems important > nonetheless. > > We can't allow transferring of objects, since you can't transfer > something to all listeners of a broadcasting API. But plain structured > clones should be no problem to support conceptually (though more work > to implement of course). > > We've started looking at doing structured clone support for Firefox > and likely won't ship until we have that implemented. > > / Jonas
