Web Workers in HTML5
What are Web Workers? Web Workers API is being developed currently. The Web Workers are background workers that run scripts in parallel to their main page. The Web Worker itself is independent of any user interface scripts. They allow thread-like operations on the client side that include message-passing mechanism for coordination or data retrieval. If you expected to have a long-lived process, to have a high start-up performance cost, and a high per-instance memory cost Web Workers can be a good solution. How to use Web Workers API? The specification for Web Workers specify two kinds of workers – Dedicated Workers and Shared Workers. The first kind wraps a given task and perform it. The second can have multiple connections and uses ports for posting messages. The first thing to do in order to use the Web Workers API is to create the worker and pass it an execution script URL. Here is an example for how to do that with Dedicated Workers: var worker = new ...