Three Web Apps Last Calls: Server-Sent Events, Progress Events, Web Workers

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The Web Applications Working Group published three Last Call Working Drafts today:

Server-Sent Events, defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS.
Progress Events, defines an abstract event interface that can be used for measuring progress; e.g. HTTP entity body transfers.
Web Workers, which defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism.

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