An Introduction to HTML 5 Web Workers

i'm currently a little pissed at webwokers (yeah, i take it personally) that i can't hand them a canvaspixelarray. so basically to use workers for canvasimagemanipulation you have to copy the canvaspixelarray into an uint8array, pass it to the work, get back a uint8array and copy that one back into the imagedata.data canvaspixelarray. oh yeah, the copy actions are of course all in the main thread - so this basically defeats the reason to have webworkers in the first place.

I hope there are simple ways to disable these on browsers.<p>Can't imagine every tab having a load of workers in the background, ending well.<p>One of the pleasant things about javascript is that there are no threads. It's a shame some people have pushed for this API.<p>After all, it's not rocket science for a competent developer to split a long running task into chunks which are periodically run via a timeout, keeping the UI responsive.