On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]>wrote:
> This is counter to the whole premise of Workers, which should be > independent of their renderer process and certainly not block themselves > while waiting for responses from the renderer (which inherently describes > an async behaviour). > That's backwards. The premise is that the renderer (UI) will not be blocked by workers, not that workers won't be blocked by the renderer. > Sync apis are sore thumb in GlobalWorkerScope's world. I don't know what that means. Synchronous APIs are one of the major reasons to have Workers in the first place. -- Glenn Maynard
