I think that as soon as it's reviewed, we should enable and ship it! / Jonas
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Andrea Marchesini <amarches...@mozilla.com> wrote: > My implementation supports sending blobs. > However, the API is still disabled by pref. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jonas Sicking" <jo...@sicking.cc> > > To: "Andrea Marchesini" <amarches...@mozilla.com> > > Cc: "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 5:49:21 PM > > Subject: Re: Intent to implement: BroadcastChannel API > > > > Yes! > > > > Though as previously expressed, I don't think we should ship this until > it > > supports sending Blobs. > > > > But we should definitely land preffed off as soon as patches are > reviewed. > > > > / Jonas > > On Sep 24, 2014 3:45 AM, "Andrea Marchesini" <amarches...@mozilla.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Summary: (from the spec) Pages on a single origin opened by the same > user > > > in the same user agent but in different unrelated browsing contexts > > > sometimes need to send notifications to each other, for example "hey, > the > > > user logged in over here, check your credentials again". > > > For elaborate cases, e.g. to manage locking of shared state, to manage > > > synchronisation of resources between a server and multiple local > clients, > > > to share a WebSocket connection with a remote host, and so forth, > shared > > > workers are the most appropriate solution. > > > For simple cases, though, where a shared worker would be an > unreasonable > > > overhead, authors can use the simple channel-based broadcast mechanism > > > described in this section. > > > > > > Link to standard: > > > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/web-messaging.html#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts > > > > > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966439 > > > > > > Platform coverage: All > > > > > > Preference behind which this will be implemented: > > > dom.broadcastchannel.enabled > > > > > > Note: Actually I've already implemented this API but I forgot to send > this > > > intent to implement email months ago. It has received the first > positive > > > review. I hope to land this API soon, if there are no objections. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dev-platform mailing list > > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > > > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
