21650 2013-04-10 06:29:17 +0000 Require that XHR is available in workers 2014-02-07 16:18:10 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG XHR unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 zcorpan annevk hsteen ian mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 85843 0 zcorpan 2013-04-10 06:29:17 +0000 http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-xmlhttprequest This used to be in the worker spec but was removed at some point. The XHR spec needs to say something like [[ The XMLHttpRequest constructor must be exposed if the JavaScript global environment is a worker environment. ]] see e.g. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html#workernavigator Similarly for all other interfaces you want to be exposed in workers defined in this spec. 85847 1 zcorpan 2013-04-10 06:38:38 +0000 Hmm, the WorkerNavigator example should probably be used for interfaces, while constructors should use [[ This constructor must be visible when the script's global object is either a Window object or an object implementing the WorkerGlobalScope interface. ]] see http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html#shared-workers-and-the-sharedworker-interface 85849 2 annevk 2013-04-10 07:49:11 +0000 What does "must be exposed" mean? Is that defined somewhere? 85851 3 zcorpan 2013-04-10 08:17:21 +0000 http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/#dfn-expose 86646 4 ian 2013-04-24 00:11:10 +0000 Note that the HTML side of this is in flux (two checkins today; more possibly in the semi-near future). 96032 5 hsteen 2013-11-08 10:45:33 +0000 I don't quite get why the XHR spec should say that XHR must be available in Workers. Shouldn't rather the Worker spec reference XHR and say that it must be made available? (There is currently no mention of XHR in http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html except that XMLHttpRequest is used in one of the demo scripts..) 96045 6 annevk 2013-11-08 22:29:58 +0000 No, we do not want to update the workers specification whenever a new API comes out. Instead, we should embrace workers as a first-class citizen. This'll be fixed soon once we have the [Global] and [ExposedBy] or whatever we call them annotations. 100020 7 annevk 2014-02-07 16:18:10 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/commit/4d307f0a00301fbd147ed78f37428694b14cde08