It looks like all of this is there in a just published update of the spec.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Dmitry Titov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have couple of questions about Workers: > > 1. The sample code looks as > if setTimeout/clearTimeout/setInterval/clearInterval should be available to > Workers (as methods of WorkerUtils?) but they are not explicitly specified > on any interface. Should they be there? > > 2. It seems workers should be able to create workers (including creating > 'themselves' in case of SharedWorker). It is especially useful for a > SharedWorker to create dedicated workers - since one of the popular > scenarios for it is likely a "state container" that communicates with UI > pages while using dedicated workers to do other operations. Will spec > include this? > > > Thanks > Dmitry >