My implementation supports sending blobs. However, the API is still disabled by pref.
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonas Sicking" <jo...@sicking.cc> > To: "Andrea Marchesini" <amarches...@mozilla.com> > Cc: "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 5:49:21 PM > Subject: Re: Intent to implement: BroadcastChannel API > > Yes! > > Though as previously expressed, I don't think we should ship this until it > supports sending Blobs. > > But we should definitely land preffed off as soon as patches are reviewed. > > / Jonas > On Sep 24, 2014 3:45 AM, "Andrea Marchesini" <amarches...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > > Summary: (from the spec) Pages on a single origin opened by the same user > > in the same user agent but in different unrelated browsing contexts > > sometimes need to send notifications to each other, for example "hey, the > > user logged in over here, check your credentials again". > > For elaborate cases, e.g. to manage locking of shared state, to manage > > synchronisation of resources between a server and multiple local clients, > > to share a WebSocket connection with a remote host, and so forth, shared > > workers are the most appropriate solution. > > For simple cases, though, where a shared worker would be an unreasonable > > overhead, authors can use the simple channel-based broadcast mechanism > > described in this section. > > > > Link to standard: > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/web-messaging.html#broadcasting-to-other-browsing-contexts > > > > Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966439 > > > > Platform coverage: All > > > > Preference behind which this will be implemented: > > dom.broadcastchannel.enabled > > > > Note: Actually I've already implemented this API but I forgot to send this > > intent to implement email months ago. It has received the first positive > > review. I hope to land this API soon, if there are no objections. > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
