On 4/17/09 6:45 PM, Marco Schuster wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Background JavaScript worker threads
You mean...stuff like bots written in Javascript, using the XML API? I could imagine also sending mails via Special:Emailuser in the background to reach multiple recipients - that's a PITA if you want send mails to multiple users.
Perhaps... but note that the i/o for XMLHTTPRequest is asynchronous to begin with -- it's really only if you're doing heavy client-side _processing_ that you're likely to benefit from a background worker thread.
(Background threads also cannot directly touch the DOM or any objects in your foreground thread. You need to pass stuff in and out through indirect messages.)
- Geolocation services
That sounds kinda interesting, even if the accuracy on non-GPS-enabled devices isn't that high... can this in any way be joined with the OSM integration?
It sure could! :)
-- brion