HTML Web Worker and Jquery Ajax call

Question

I\'m wondering if I can use jQuery inside the web worker file. Google Chrome gives me this error: \"Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined\".

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Answer 1

Since web workers are in external files, they do not have access to the following JavaScript objects:

• The window object
• The document object
• The parent object

So you can't use $ inside worker file. Better you can use traditional AJAX something like this

if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
  // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{
  // code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

Reference at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webworkers.asp