11818 2011-01-20 06:40:33 +0000 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? 2011-02-16 07:48:31 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG Web Workers (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED LATER http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian jscinoz mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 44501 0 contributor 2011-01-20 06:40:33 +0000 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 44503 1 jscinoz 2011-01-20 08:07:07 +0000 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? 45649 2 ian 2011-02-16 07:48:31 +0000 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! :-)