Labs/Jetpack/Reboot/JEP/108
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JEP 108 - Background Pages
- Champion: Daniel Buchner - daniel@mozilla.com
- Status: Accepted/In-Queue
- Bug Ticket:
- Type: API
Proposal
Background Pages are like a more open and free sandbox for doing most anything in a traditional web page with a DOM context, but with a key difference: the page is augmented with escalated, waterfall chrome privileges. It is essentially along the same line of a Web Worker, just more open and accessible.
Key Issues
Dependencies & Requirements
- We must be able to give the code in the top window of this page chrome privileges that are strictly one-way/descending in nature.
- Dynamically generated code sent to the Background Page should be injected and executed in the Background Page's window context.
Internal Methods
- TBD
API Methods
$Moz.background({ interval: 10000, bind:jetpack.tabs[0] }, function(){
return window.document;
});
- Background Page work units are bound with the Background Page's window object by default
- If interval option is present, the function is wrapped with setInterval(); and the $Moz.background method returns the interval timer so that it may be cleared outside of the Background Page.
- Functional context for the function passed to the background page can be passed as an option