The specific implementation of SharedWorkers in WebKit does this currently, but that is not a feature of the spec - I have this on my todo list to resolve once I've finished the Chromium version of shared workers.
-atw On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]> wrote: > > 07.11.2009, в 10:47, Michael Nordman написал(а): > > > I've been wondering if SharedWorkers should have a means of establishing >> an appcache similar to how pages can via the <html manifest='x'> mechanism. >> >> My mental model is that a shared worker is very much like a top-level page >> with respect to appcaches, but that means for a shared worker to >> express/establish its appcache is missing. >> > > Don't shared workers depend on HTML documents for network loading? I'm not > sure how they can have independent caches, if they just ask a document to > fetch a resource for them. > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > >
