15094 2011-12-07 00:57:42 +0000 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. 2011-12-14 00:22:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG Web Workers (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian jonas mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 61072 0 contributor 2011-12-07 00:57:42 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: 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.someData) or as a global variable with a predefined name. Posted from: 84.48.203.37 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; nb-no) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5 61078 1 jonas 2011-12-07 01:16:19 +0000 Oooh, I like this idea. Basically it's syntax sugar for creating a worker and then posting a message to it. But it allows the data to be there while the initial worker body is running which is nice. 61351 2 ian 2011-12-09 23:08:37 +0000 This saves like 3 lines of code, is it really that helpful? var worker = new Worker("someurl.js"); worker.postMessage({somData: "1234"}); // someurl.js: onmessage = function (event.data) { // whatever your worker would have been; // initial data is in event.data } 61513 3 ian 2011-12-14 00:22:12 +0000 Doesn't seem compelling. Please don't hesitate to reopen if I've missed something obvious here.