25413 2014-04-22 18:00:41 +0000 BroadcastChannel: what's the use case for MessageEvent.channel 2014-04-30 00:04:37 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal Unsorted 1 jonas ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 104176 0 jonas 2014-04-22 18:00:41 +0000 It seems to always be the same as .target when a message is fired at a BroadcastChannel. The only feature that it seems to provide is the ability to test if a MessageEvent was fired at a broadcast channel, as opposed to a window/worker/messageport/etc. That can be easily accomplished by testing event.target instanceof BroadcastChannel 104179 1 ian 2014-04-22 18:22:19 +0000 I guess we could add a "name" attribute to BroadcastChannel and remove "channel" from MessageEvent, sure. Should I go ahead and do that? 104190 2 jonas 2014-04-22 18:33:49 +0000 Please do. 104764 3 contributor 2014-04-30 00:04:37 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8589. Check-in comment: Instead of MessageEvent.channel, use MessageEvent.target.name. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8588&to=8589