On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Dimitri Glazkov wrote: > > > > Having said that, I do think the global script object idea is a bad > > idea. > > I am not convinced it's awesome either. But thought the same (and still > do) about HTML5 database, and yet here it is in the standard :)
Actually the Database API was extracted into its own spec and that spec is more or less stalled now. > Ultimately, as Dmitry said, it will be developers who vote on this. What > they will pick may not be pristinely designed multi-threaded APIs, but > hairy, hard-to-get-right other specs that we browser developers would've > preferred them not to. They can't pick something we don't offer. :-) I really think we need to be pushing multithreaded solutions now, though, given the direction of hardware development. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
