20041 2012-11-22 10:58:51 +0000 Please be explicit about the different event loops. 2013-04-12 22:33:50 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-workerglobalscope-common-interface P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 78644 0 contributor 2012-11-22 10:58:51 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-workerglobalscope-common-interface Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-workerglobalscope-common-interface Comment: Please be explicit about the different event loops. Posted from: 81.231.170.159 User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.61 78645 1 zcorpan 2012-11-22 11:00:25 +0000 Since workers have a special event loop, it might be a good idea to have a special name for it, e.g. "worker event loop", and xref that. 78661 2 ian 2012-11-22 19:27:17 +0000 Could you elaborate on this? In most places, I really want to be able to just refer to "the event loop" and have it refer to the worker or document one as appropriate, without having to worry about which it is. 78663 3 zcorpan 2012-11-22 19:43:00 +0000 Maybe it's easier for you, but it's confusing for me when I try to understand what the spec says for the purpose of writing tests. In the Web worker section, I think all instances of "event loop" mean "worker event loop". In the Cross-document messaging section, I only find one instance of "event loop", and there it can point to both if it can be either. 78664 4 zcorpan 2012-11-22 19:48:56 +0000 I realize there are other features that interact with the event loop and are available in both contexts, like WebSockets. I'm fine with WebSockets referring to "event loop" to mean either, since it only does something in one context. However, the Web Workers and Cross-document messaging sections do stuff in both contexts, and there it would be helpful to be explicit. 82607 5 contributor 2013-02-06 00:24:11 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7696. Check-in comment: Integrate the 'event loop' mechanism of workers and windows together, and try to specify which is meant when it might be ambiguous. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7695&to=7696 82608 6 ian 2013-02-06 00:24:32 +0000 Can you take a look at the spec again and let me know if you still think it's got issues? I'm not 100% sure how to fix it beyond this. 83968 7 zcorpan 2013-03-04 22:53:33 +0000 Looks good. Thanks! 86091 8 ian 2013-04-12 22:33:50 +0000 marking fixed per comment 7