608170 - ChromeWorkers should have atob, btoa

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

In order to be able to implement WeaveCrypto in a ChromeWorker, we need atob and btoa available in ChromeWorkers.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: Patch, v1

This consolidates our other two uses of atob/btoa and moves everything to nsXPConnect. Has tests too.

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

For the record, there's a windows only problem with the patch, Ben is fixing...

Comment 3

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

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2192654e75c5

Comment 4

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've written a new article, "Functions available to workers", that lists these and other functions workers can use. Please take a look:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Worker/Functions_available_to_workers

While I was at it, I cleaned up the main Worker article, updated the ChromeWorker article, and inserted links to the new article throughout the Worker docs.