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Bug 21443 - Shouldn't the text "receive messages from the worker" be "receive messages FOR the worker"?
Summary: Shouldn't the text "receive messages from the worker" be "receive messages FO...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-03-30 15:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-14 06:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-03-30 15:46:14 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#a-background-number-crunching-worker
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#a-background-number-crunching-worker

Comment:
Shouldn't the text "receive messages from the worker" be "receive messages FOR
the worker"?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-01 18:41:28 UTC 
I don't think this, no. The Worker.onmessage handler is invoked when there's an event from the worker being received by the thread that holds the Worker object. Am I missing something?