Chromium needs a frameless loader for workers

• Component: Platform
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[David Levin]

Since chromium loads workers in a separate process from the frame, it needs a loader which doesn't rely on frames in order to do the loading.  (This won't allow loaders to be used on other threads and is only needed for the chromium port.)

[David Levin]

Created attachment 30718 [details]
Proposed fix.

Although these is no chromium specific code, it is a chromium specific directory for two reasons:
1. I expect that only chromium will use it.
2. It is so similar to ResourceLoader/SubresourceLoader that to land it in the main directory those classes should be refactored but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that without adding many more virtual function calls and more complexity to those classes (which is badness).

[Darin Fisher (:fishd, Google)]

Hmm... duplication of complicated code vs. making complicated code more complex ;-)

How bad would the refactoring be?  It seems like that is the better long term solution.

[David Levin]

Comment on attachment 30718 [details]
Proposed fix.

Withdrawing for now...

Will consider a dummy frame instead.