465108 - Workers: Add navigator object

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Attachment: Patch, v1

From email discussions with the WhatWG members interested in workerswere going to implement a subset of the HTML5 navigator object spceified here:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#navigator

Currently we'll only support the NavigatorID interface.

Comment 1

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> workerswere

Should be "workers we're" :)

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

So word on the street is that we should just add the whole list of properties that is available on the normal window.navigator object :( Apparently the current list isn't even enough for googles browser detector.

Comment 3

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Nah, these 4 are what HTML5 found to be necessary and sufficient.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Marking this a blocker. W/o this it's impossible to do browser detection in worker scripts, which is critical for developers, especially in early versions of implementations.

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/141a92940ca1