Introduction In this second installment of our series on developing HTML5 applications for AppUp, we'll look at a new feature of HTML5, Web Workers. We'll ...

Here's how to use worker threads and web workers for modern multithreading in JavaScript. Credit: Dirk Ercken/Shutterstock The JavaScript language is one of the wonders of the software world.

The Right Way to Use Web Workers Because JavaScript is a single-threaded environment, posting messages to the worker won't interrupt the worker's processing. It's much like having some long-running ...