Check out the github repo. I wrote a worker.js "polyfill" that's meant to emulate web workers for node. I want to apply this to the browser at some point but for now there are hard dependencies on Worker and URL.

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itsnotvalid13y ago· 2 in thread

Is this compatible with non-worker-ready browsers?

hughes13y ago

Doesn't look like it. Clicking "Try It" does nothing, so I guess it has no single-threaded fallback.

adambomOP13y ago

You need a way to spawn threads. There may be a way to implement this in the main browser event loop but I have yet to think of a way.

coditor13y ago· 2 in thread

Is there anything you can't build with javascript?

Cieplak13y ago

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

kevingadd13y ago

Anything that needs weak references. They might land in ES7, though...

niggler13y ago· 1 in thread

Should add a web worker polyfill like http://code.google.com/p/fakeworker-js/source/browse/src/jav... to the live demos ...

adambomOP13y ago

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