916204 - (apis-in-workers) [meta] Norway Worker Work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Workers, defect)

Comment 1

[Florian Bender]

[https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Haida] mentions this bug under "Shared Workers". I'm a bit confused on what the relationship to Bug 643325 is. Is this a dependency, synonymous to or dupe of, or orthogonal to Bug 643325?

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

florian, this is my tracking bug so that we get everything done we promised to get done.  bug 643325 may be a dependency of this bug.

Comment 3

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

More info including prioritized list of APIs to enable on workers:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/WorkerThreadAPIs

- Game APIs
  - WebGL Canvas Bug 709490 http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasInWorkers
  - WebAudio
- IndexedDB Bug 701634
- console.* Bug 620935
- Promises Bug 915233
- Data Store
- Device Storage
- TCPSocket
- Notifications Bug 916893
- WebSocket Bug 504553
- MessageChannel
- Sync message channel
- FormData
- File System
- doNotTrack
- Parts of WebRTC (ask ekr)
- DataChannel
- 2D Canvas for workers (spec unstable) Bug 801176

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

From this list:

* Web Audio will require spec work -- that's not something that we can do right now.
* DataStore and TCPSocket (at least) are implemented in JS, which complicates things.
* WorkerNavigator.onLine is needed for some of our offline use cases (bug 925437).

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Fwiw, not all of these APIs are required for end of year.  Ehsan - can you find out exactly what is needed for the gaia demos?

Comment 6

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

I meant to ask you what you intended this bug to be, Doug:  APIs required for MWC demos or APIs gaia needs on workers in general.  I guess the latter is silly.

AFAIK async IDB is #1 and gaia can probably work around the others for their MWC demos.

Comment 7

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Fwiw, not all of these APIs are required for end of year.  Ehsan - can you find
> out exactly what is needed for the gaia demos?

Sure, will do!

Comment 8

[(no longer active)]

Vivien told me that the two big things that Gaia needs for the MWC demos are IndexedDB and DataStore.  The latter can be difficult since it's implemented in JS...