Call for Implementations: Web Workers; HTML5 Web Messaging
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations:
- 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.
- HTML5 Web Messaging, which defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.