736095 - Make JS Schedule API work in a worker

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

At the moment, the JSScheduleAPI (introduced in bug 692420) requires some XPCOM and generally behaves as if it were always used from the main thread.

It should be simple to adapt the API to make it work in a background thread:
- detect that we are executed outside of XPCOM land (i.e. detect that |Components| is not defined);
- in that context, instead of using XPCOM, simply call |setTimeout|;
- also, in that context, ensure that we do not pollute the global namespace with |exports| and |Private|.

Comment 1

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

Schedule API will be reimplemented.