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49 bugs found.
ID Product Comp Assignee Status Resolution Summary Opened Changed
9823 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO LATE Add "maxExecutionContexts" property with number of hardware execution contexts 2010-05-28 2010-08-27
10420 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO NEED Can you post sample of cross domain for web workers? 2010-08-24 2010-09-25
11818 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO LATE 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? 2011-01-20 2011-02-16
11827 WebAppsW Web Work ian CLOS WORK [Workers] "connect" event interface type not defined 2011-01-21 2011-02-02
12067 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE Improve error handling in workers 2011-02-14 2011-06-21
12340 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE It is not clear which worker to use when using nameless SharedWorker 2011-03-19 2011-06-21
12574 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE AbstractWorker and WorkerGlobalScope should inherit EventTarget 2011-04-29 2011-08-05
12836 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE WorkerLocation lacks a strigifier 2011-05-31 2011-06-21
12941 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE If I understand what I'm reading correctly, there's an error at the end of "A background number-crunching worker" tutorial. I think you mean "postMessage()" instead of "send()" in the sentence "To send a message back to the page, the send() method is used 2011-06-11 2011-06-21
13063 WebAppsW Web Work ian CLOS FIXE MessagePort normatively referenced by not defined 2011-06-26 2011-08-10
13064 WebAppsW Web Work ian CLOS FIXE WindowBase64 normatively referenced by not defined 2011-06-26 2011-08-10
13065 WebAppsW Web Work ian CLOS FIXE WindowTimers normatively referenced by not defined 2011-06-26 2011-08-10
13146 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA hola como estan 2011-07-05 2011-07-05
13232 WebAppsW Web Work ian CLOS FIXE I think the section on DedicatedWorkerScope should include information about the kinds of data that postMessage can send to a worker, and the kinds of data that a worker can send back. http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/#dedicated-workers-and-the-dedicatedwo 2011-07-13 2011-08-19
13254 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA what the hell is this 2011-07-14 2011-07-14
13255 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA When I use importScripts in my worker to load a separate "library" file, it works, but I get the error: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: importScripts (Safari) Uncaught ReferenceError: importScripts is not defined So it's throwing an error, but that 2011-07-14 2011-08-08
13280 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL Why isn't MessageEvent linked to a definition? It's not at all clear what this object is. And the postMsg API has a MessageEvent, but that object doesn't have the "target" property, which is used in the sample code below. A lot more information about Mess 2011-07-17 2011-07-17
13373 WebAppsW Web Work ian VERI FIXE Privacy: Limit SharedWorker connections to same top-level domain 2011-07-26 2011-10-25
13426 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO NEED "Attempt to fetch each resource identified by the resulting absolute URLs, from the entry script's origin" — this makes it sound as if you should only fetch URLs frm that origin, which looking more closely isn't the meaning. This should be made more obv 2011-07-28 2011-08-08
13427 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL "Attempt to fetch each resource identified by the resulting absolute URLs, from the entry script's origin" — this makes it sound as if you should only fetch URLs frm that origin, which looking more closely isn't the meaning. This should be made more obv 2011-07-28 2011-07-28
13580 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO WORK web workers postMessage 2011-08-03 2011-08-08
13772 WebAppsW Web Work ian VERI FIXE Example code should contain a comma instead of semicolon: worker.port.postMessage({ foo: 'structured', bar: ['data', 'also', 'possible']}); 2011-08-13 2011-10-06
13844 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA Does web work add complex to web? 2011-08-20 2011-08-22
13989 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE Need a spec for ErrorEvent constructor 2011-09-01 2011-09-10
14086 WebAppsW Web Work contributor RESO WONT When performing AJAX type queries, they are already asynchronous and already occur in another thread. However, I have found that parsing the XML reply and converting that to a representation usable by the javascript application can result in freezes to t 2011-09-08 2014-10-02
14093 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL Just to throw out an idea, to allow use of the XML parser, and alert() for debugging, one could implement web workers as simply another open page in the browser, with full access to the DOM, etc, with the ability to communicate to the 'parent' by posting 2011-09-08 2011-09-13
14116 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL Regarding a previous post, a browser could launch itself (CreateProcess() on Windows) again and pass say a port number, a URL, and a boolean flag to the spawned child process. The browser could then be modified to examine it's command line- if there are 3 2011-09-12 2011-09-13
14137 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL Just want to add - don't get hung up on the process/thread stuff. It is just a metaphor. I don't really care how it is implemented. One could do it all in one process. The present design fits the process model nicely. There is no sharing of memory. 2011-09-13 2011-09-13
14138 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL Lastly, to make clear. I am not proposing web workers share the DOM with the main thread. I am proposing the each web worker has it's own INDEPENDENT DOM. (No sharing of memory or DOMs between workers/main thread). 2011-09-13 2011-09-13
14214 WebAppsW Web Work contributor RESO FIXE missing definition of Transferable 2011-09-19 2015-10-06
14220 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA In reply to comment #0) > Every browser that I know of can have two web pages open at once. Those 2 web > pages both have a DOM, they don't share a DOM. Some browsers implement this > as 2 different processes, some as 2 threads. This is where you're m 2011-09-19 2011-09-20
14296 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA sorry, does this work 2011-09-26 2011-09-28
14677 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA Hey, There! =D My name is Felipe. And I'm looking around this new tecnology. I'm really enjoying it. 2011-11-02 2011-11-02
15094 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO WONT When creating a worker, it should be possible to assign some arguments to the constructor, or pass an init object like so: var worker = new Worker("someurl.js", { someData: "1234" }); The object passed could be made available as the current context (this. 2011-12-07 2011-12-14
15141 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope IDL formatting is broken 2011-12-10 2011-12-14
15554 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA Hi, The article is very good. Also user can view. HTML5 Web Workers http://www.totaldotnet.com/Article/ShowArticle145_HTML5WebWorker.aspx 2012-01-14 2012-01-14
15917 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA prueba de uso de web broker 2012-02-06 2012-02-06
16461 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA what this is importent to me? 2012-03-21 2012-03-21
16665 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO INVA kk gd df d fgd f gd gdg 2012-04-09 2012-04-09
16730 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO WORK Shared workers - use .source instead of .ports[0] ? 2012-04-13 2012-07-13
18001 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE Allow data: URL for new Worker(). Supported by Opera and Firefox. 2012-07-18 2012-09-16
18003 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE Change use of "relevant namespace object" term re workers 2012-07-18 2012-09-14
18188 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL "relevant namespace object" is not defined in WebIDL anymore. 2012-07-18 2012-10-19
18189 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO WORK "The DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope interface must not exist ..." s/interface/interface object/ ? 2012-07-18 2012-09-28
18218 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO DUPL Within the workers text "list of active intervals" can be removed because it is the same as "list of active timers". 2012-07-18 2012-10-19
18275 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE equivanet -> equivalent 2012-07-18 2012-09-15
18289 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE Support 'column' here for consistency with window.onerror? 2012-07-18 2013-03-21
21725 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO FIXE Specify id for Step 1 of the Web Workers Processing Model 2013-04-17 2013-06-03
26957 WebAppsW Web Work ian RESO WONT Allow sending DOM objects to Workers and expose a DOM (or DOM-like) interface to workers 2014-10-02 2014-10-09
49 bugs found.