Has anyone here coded web workers? (moved)

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Hi, everyone,

Has anyone here written anything for a web worker?

I’m just trying to learn about web workers, and I see that FF and Chrome support workers, since version 3; Opera and Safari also support workers. But IE didn’t start supporting workers until 10, and even then it’s very limited.

I know that web workers can be a very powerful and robust way of having the client system do some serious heavy lifting without freezing the UI. But why is support so limited?

Thanks, and
V/r,

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Because it is still only a candidate recommendation and may yet change before it finally becomes a standard.

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Och… didn’t realise that it hadn’t been standardised, yet. Thanks!

V/r,

:slight_smile:

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There have been lots of proposals for new code introduced over the past few years aln most of them are yet to become standard. HTML 5 only became a standard four weeks ago.

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I was beginning to think they’d never get the HTML5 standards finished. Felt like forever.

V/r,

:slight_smile:

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