Three WebApps Updates: Web Workers, Web Storage, Server-Side Events

The Web Applications Working Group updated three Working Drafts today: Web Workers, Web Storage, and Server-side Events. The first 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. The second defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients. The third 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. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.