[whatwg] Proposal for separating script downloads and execution

John Tamplin jat at google.com
Tue Feb 8 08:21:31 PST 2011


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:

> Is there a specific problem with letting Web Workers handle this use case?
> They should not interfere with the UI thread.
>

I'm not really the one to answer and I don't know the details of the problem
or solution, I was just trying to give some background to why it was done
the way it was given the comment from Henri.

Also, I thought Web Workers couldn't access the DOM, so how would that solve
this problem?

-- 
John A. Tamplin
Software Engineer (GWT), Google



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