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Bug 11818 - As documented in the "Creating workers" section, a worker *must* be an external script. This prevents developing or deploying code that uses Web Workers as a single page app, which is often quite handy. Could this restriction be lifted?
Summary: As documented in the "Creating workers" section, a worker *must* be an exter...
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Workers (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-01-20 06:40 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-02-16 07:48 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-01-20 06:40:33 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
As documented in the "Creating workers"  section, a worker *must* be an
external script. This prevents developing or deploying code that uses Web
Workers as a single page app, which is often quite handy. Could this
restriction be lifted?

Posted from: 68.116.10.83
Comment 1 Jack Coulter 2011-01-20 08:07:07 UTC 
While not mentioned in the spec, most implementations support creating workers from Blob URLs, if I recall correctly... Perhaps this should be documented on the official standard?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-16 07:48:31 UTC 
This is probably one of the first features we're gonna to add when we add the next set of features, but I think it's a bit premature to add it now. First we have to get the browsers to actually implement the spec as written! :-)