Monday, July 27th, 2009
Adding your own scripts to Web Workers
Over in Geneva, they have posted on coupling PHP and Workers.
They build on the great intro from John and tweak it to use simple PHP on the backend to do things such as making sure that your favourite library has been loaded into each Worker, so you can use it in your script.
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// Recieve data FROM the client with postMessage()
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onmessage = function(event){
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if ( event.data === 'load' ) {
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postMessage( '-----BEGIN TRANSMISSION-----');
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postMessage( {'server_objects': this} );
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$.ajax.get({
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url: 'xhr_test_content.txt',
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callback: function(response) {
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var text = response.text;
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postMessage( 'AJAX GET RETURNED: ' + text );
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}
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});
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postMessage( '-----END TRANSMISSION-------');
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}
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};
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The Worker implementations are doing well these days. For awhile Safari didn't have importScripts but that changed before Safari 4. Chrome had some weird side effects too recently, and Malte Ubl posted on some strangeness that we ran into with our Bespin Worker Facade.
We tested for:
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if (typeof Worker == "undefined") {
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But that didn't work. Malte explains:
For some reason the statement above is actually true in Chrome 2, even though as stated above support for the Worker API has not been implemented.
I then tried to instantiate the Worker object. All this does is to throw an exception with the message "Worker is not enabled". This looks like an unfinished implementation that was only partially removed or something in that direction.
This code handles the special case:
JAVASCRIPT:
The bug is filed. The good news is that workers are looking pretty good these days!
It’s usually better to avoid double negatives. Also, true/false in that ternary is really redundant : )
var hasWorker = typeof Worker != “undefined”;
if (!hasWorker) { … }
I implemented web workers in Passpack 7 to speed up some jobs when Google Gears is not installed.
I simply check it with:
if (window.Worker) …
It works well with all browsers.
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