Computing with JavaScript Web Workers

Javascript just keeps getting cooler and cooler. The more I learn about it the more I find myself loving it.

Web Workers look ugly to me :( Sad that they thought of this as a good idea. It's just a horrible hack that'll lead to horrible code.<p>Threads are usually misused. When you add threads and it speeds up your code, you're usually doing something terribly wrong (When #threads&#62;#cores).

So now any website could setup a web worker in the background of pages to massively improve there processing power.<p>Very cool feature though, makes the entry level to distributed processing very low.

How long until some high-traffic page owner decides to resell his visitors CPU time ?

I'm rather amazed that this is available in Firefox and Safari today.

tragedy of the commons. wow, i just can't wait for every amateur web designer to take up the mantle of threaded coding.<p>get used to "kill -9", you're going to be using it to preempt all this amateur-hour worker code people slap together and foist on you

Why web workers can't take a function or an object?<p><pre><code> myobject={ start: function(){ /* do stuff */ } stop: function(){ /* end worker */ } postMessage:function(){ /* communicate */ } onmessage: function(){ /* receiving data*/ } onerror: function(){ /* handle stuff */ } } myworker = new Worker(myobject); myworker.start(); myworker.postMessage("dostuff"); myworker.stop(); </code></pre> Or something like that...