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== Do we actually want to implement this? ==
The basic goal here is to allow the off-main-thread HTML 5 parser to get data from the network without having to having to proxy the data to from the main thread. The benefits are greater parallelism and reduced interference between the main thread and the parser thread (resulting in better UI responsiveness).
Now that we are moving towards using multiple processes (see [[Content_Processes]]), there is some question of how useful the solution documented here is. In the long run, we are going to be putting the HTML parser in separate processes rather than threads; so this solution is at best a temporary one. But since the API here should be faster to implement than the multi-process one, it might be a useful stopgap implementation for a release or two, until multi-process is ready for prime time.
