1078440 - Document MessagePort and MessageChannel

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: Miscellaneous, defect)

Description

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

As far as I know these APIs are not documented on MDN, although they are supported by Firefox (and Chrome, haven't tried in any other browsers).

Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/#channel-messaging.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

The real spec is there: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#channel-messaging

Also you find our implementation info here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/webidl/MessagePort.webidl (Although it should implement the Transferable helper methods, it doesn't)
and
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/webidl/MessageChannel.webidl

As it will supported in Workers, we need to be sure to update this page, if needed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Worker/Functions_and_classes_available_to_workers

Relevant implementation bugs I found (useful for compat data): bug 677638 (initial implementation in Fx 26, preffed off by default), major fix in Fx 31 (bug 912456).

For workers: bug 911972. (not yet landed)

Note that this API is still off by default: bug 952139 is about activating it.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Chris did it.