On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ian Hickson<i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > Drew Wilson wrote: >> Per section 4.8.3 of the SharedWorkers spec, >> if a page loads a shared worker with a url and >> name, it is illegal for any other page under the >> same origin to load a worker with the same name
> The idea here is that if you have an app that > does database manipulation, you might want to > ensure there is only ever one shared worker > doing the manipulation, so you might decide > on a shared worker name that is in charge of > that, and then you can be sure that you don't > accidentally start two workers with that name > using different copies of a script So the name is really intended as a (lightweight) URN, but it can default to the URL? -jJ