Re: [whatwg] Canvas in workers

2013-10-12 Thread Kyle Huey
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Michael Norton wrote: > Thank you! Read over the 1st link you provided, interesting. A worker > then seems similar to a runtime process in an os environment - is it a > derivation of RPC? > In a manner of speaking. Workers are an abstraction allowing for par

Re: [whatwg] Canvas in workers

2013-10-12 Thread Kyle Huey
I'm referring to Web Workers. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Performance/Using_web_workers - Kyle On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Michael Norton wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > I have read the editor's draft

[whatwg] Canvas in workers

2013-10-12 Thread Kyle Huey
I talked at length with Robert O'Callahan about what the DOM API for supporting in web workers should look like and we came up with the following modifications to the spec. 1. Rename CanvasProxy to WorkerCanvas and only allow it to be transferred to workers. I don't think we're interested