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    <bug>
          <bug_id>6052</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2008-09-10 00:19:47 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Should propagate uncaught exceptions from workers to their owner</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2010-10-04 14:29:35 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>All</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>VERIFIED</bug_status>
          <resolution>FIXED</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords>NoReply</keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>news</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
          
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    <commentid>21860</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2008-09-10 00:19:47 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Should propagate uncaught exceptions from workers to their owner.
Should propagate uncaught errors from nested workers to the next owner.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>21862</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Andrew Fedoniouk">news</who>
    <bug_when>2008-09-10 05:01:54 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>What exactly means &quot;propagate&quot;?
The only feasible option is to send error message from worker to its owner. Or probably rise some event similar to &quot;fire a simple event called error&quot; [1]  
Otherwise it is not clear how and when to catch such an exception. 

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#processing

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  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>22851</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2008-12-25 02:47:13 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Done.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>33002</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Maciej Stachowiak">mjs</who>
    <bug_when>2010-03-14 13:15:43 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.</thetext>
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