[whatwg] Workers feedback

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Feb 11 17:45:14 PST 2011


On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Gregg Tavares (wrk) wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
> > >
> > > 1) To give WebWorkers access to the DOM API so they can create their 
> > > own elements such as img, canvas, etc...?
> >
> > It's the API itself that isn't thread-safe, unfortunately.
> 
> I didn't see the original thread but how is a WebWorker any different 
> from another webpage? Those run just fine in other threads and use the 
> DOM API.

Web pages do not run in a different thread.

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