Re: Asyncronous javascript component or thread emulation?
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Re: Asyncronous javascript component or thread emulation?

From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 - 23:19:19 CET



aaronwmail-usenet@yahoo.com wrote:



> Because it's in the middle of something potentially complicated


> I need to down the file synchronously (without interrupting the


> flow of control), but I'd like to make sure that the browser doesn't


> freeze up. 



I do not think it is possible to resolve that contradiction.


You have to decide what is more important to your task.


 


> In another programming environment I would run the javascript


> component in a thread -- is there any portable and safe way to


> emulate this in javascript on recent browsers?



No, ECMAScript implementations like JavaScript 1.5+ (Mozilla/5.0)


and JScript 5.5+ (IE/5.5+) are single-threaded.



PointedEars


Received on Sat Dec  3 04:32:59 2005