Web workers : multithreaded programs

[paul nisset]

Hi,
I've never heard of web workers before.

What are they and how does multi threading play into their role ?

Thanks,
Paul

[Ido Green]

I would suggest to start with this great article:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/

or just go to my blog and go over these three posts:
* http://greenido.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/web-workers-part-1/
* http://greenido.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/web-workers-part-2-out-of-3-control-your-threads-in-javascript/
* http://greenido.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/web-workers-part-3-out-of-3-shared-wrokers/

[paul nisset]

Thanks for the links.
I'll check them out.
-Paul

[Martin Garrido]

I'm learning web design by myself. I'm grateful to you for this.

[Ido Green]

Sure thing!
I hope you will find it useful.