If you encounter a most-current-release browser that requires the transfer form of postmessage, could you follow up here so that I can bug the appropriate person about it? Thanks.
--lars On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! This worked for me for a toy example (for multiple calls, I’d > record whether an exception was thrown during the first try): > > ``` > try { > // Try new API (clone) > worker.postMessage({sharedBuffer}); > } catch (e) { > // Fall back to old API (transfer) > worker.postMessage({sharedBuffer}, [sharedBuffer]); > } > ``` > > Complete source code: https://github.com/rauschma/shared-array-buffer- > demo/blob/master/main.js > > Axel > > On 25 Jan 2017, at 15:03, Lars Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're asking about how postMessage() handles a SharedArrayBuffer, since > the spec changed last summer from requiring the buffer to be in the > transfer list to forbidding it. For the time being, Firefox allows the SAB > to be in the transfer list but prints a warning in the console; by and by > we will throw an error for that (and until then we'll fail any test cases > that test for an exception). This is implemented in Firefox 51, if my > testing right now is correct. > > Since no browser has officially shipped this functionality I think some > browser sniffing may be reasonable for early adopters who want to operate > in a multi-browser setting. I would expect that when this functionality is > enabled by default in a browser the browser would adhere to the spec. > > --lars > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> AFAICT, all current implementations want you to transfer SABs. What’s the >> best way to prepare for the future? `try` transferring and clone in the >> `catch` clause? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Axel >> >> -- >> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer >> rauschma.de >> [Sent from a mobile device, please forgive brevity and typos] >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > > -- > Dr. Axel Rauschmayer > [email protected] > dr-axel.de > >
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