web-worker

I have an ember application that I create like this: window.App = Ember.Application.create({}); I want to do some background processing on a web worker. How can I get access to the window object or some other global object in the separate web worker thread? Jivings Short answer. You can't. The only resources available to web workers are that which they load from JavaScript files using importScripts() or anything that is passed to them via postMessage() . You can however now pass Objects to them. They are serialized and de-serialized to JSON automatically. Also, there is no access to local

We want to have one socket per browser rather than one per tab in a browser. How can we achieve it? I read about shared web workers which was promising. A reference for that too is appreciated. Unfortunately shared web workers are not yet implemented by mozilla or internet explorer to the best of my knowledge. So what to do in this case ? We are working on node.js on server side. After seeing this question, I've finally implemented sharing socket and added to my library a few days ago. It seems to work in most of browsers including even in IE6, but except Opera. For Opera, you may use regular

I am working on web workers and I am passing large amount of data to web worker, which takes a lot of time. I want to know the efficient way to send the data. I have tried the following code: var worker = new Worker('js2.js'); worker.postMessage( buffer,[ buffer]); worker.postMessage(obj,[obj.mat2]); if (buffer.byteLength) { alert('Transferables are not supported in your browser!'); } John UPDATE : According to Mozilla the SharedArrayBuffer has been disabled in all major browsers, thus the option described in the following EDIT does no longer apply. Note that SharedArrayBuffer was disabled by