Re: Workers v2 (Was: Refactoring SharedWorkers out of Web Workers W3C spec)

[pira...@gmail.com]

>  - Canvas in Workers
>There's been various proposals, including one in the spec that hasn't
>met with implementor approval; I'm waiting for something to get
>traction amongst the competing proposals.
>
>  - Being clearer about what features are visible in workers
>Blocked on: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22646
>
I have proposed several times about allowing to create PeerConnection and
DataChannel objects from inside a Worker, don't know if that request falls
into the "what features are visible " topic or if it's a special case like
the canvas...

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/discuss-webrtc/-bOW_hhs28E

Workers v2 (Was: Refactoring SharedWorkers out of Web Workers W3C spec)

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> 
> However I'd really like to see us start a level 2 of the spec. The 
> synchronous messaging channels is something else I'd like to see done 
> there.

There's seven features I'm aware of that people have asked for that aren't 
in Workers currently, or are specced in a way people don't want:

 - Synchronous message channels
   This has been proposed several times on this list, but so far I've only 
   seen interest from Mozilla. This is currently not on my radar, since 
   there's no outstanding e-mail on this topic that was sent to the WHATWG 
   list, and no bug is assigned to me on this topic as far as I can tell.
   The last proposal that I am aware of is:
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JulSep/0686.html
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013OctDec/0142.html

 - Inline workers (inline as in specified by