Web Workers in IE10: Background JavaScript Makes Web Apps Faster

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Responsive Web pages result in happier consumers. With Web workers, Web applications are more responsive by offloading complex JavaScript algorithms to run in the background. For example, in this test drive (link), you can see that offloading the work to calculate movement of water in the fountains via Web workers makes the main page more responsive for consumers:

 

This video shows Web Workers in action in the second IE10 Platform Preview.

 

For a closer look at the code behind this demo, watch this video.

 

This example (link) shows the difference in how Web workers help run the ECMAScript test suite much faster. With Web workers, the script on the page runs in parallel without the interruptions of page updates. The difference in elapsed time between today