Bug 140344 - Remove support for SharedWorkers
Summary: Remove support for SharedWorkers
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New Bugs (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Sam Weinig
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Reported: 2015-01-11 15:25 PST by Sam Weinig
Modified: 2019-10-06 19:59 PDT (History)
4 users (show)

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2015-01-11 15:31 PST, Sam Weinig 		andersca: review+
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Description Sam Weinig 2015-01-11 15:25:10 PST 
Remove support for SharedWorkers
Comment 1 Sam Weinig 2015-01-11 15:31:42 PST 
Created attachment 244426 [details]
Patch
Comment 2 Sam Weinig 2015-01-11 17:11:31 PST 
The Mac failure to build looks unrelated.
Comment 3 Sam Weinig 2015-01-12 16:40:54 PST 
Committed r178310: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/178310>
Comment 4 olamedia 2016-07-27 04:25:47 PDT 
Can anyone comment what is another option to make shared websocket if you removed this feature?
Comment 5 Lewis 2017-08-22 23:12:46 PDT 
SharedWorker is mandatory for implementing the superthread architecture for webapps. Is there any chance that it will be brought back to consideration?
Comment 6 Brady Eidson 2019-10-06 19:52:54 PDT 
(In reply to Lewis from comment #5)
> SharedWorker is mandatory for implementing the superthread architecture for
> webapps. Is there any chance that it will be brought back to consideration?

ServiceWorkers can do everything SharedWorkers could. (Or am I wrong about that?)
Comment 7 Lewis 2019-10-06 19:59:25 PDT 
@brady ServiceWorker has temporary lifetime while SharedWorker persists until all pages are closed. This is the fundamental difference between the two. As a result, persistent connections (websocket, indexeddb) can not be kept alive in ServiceWorker.