Make Your UI More Responsive with HTML5 Web Workers

Post by robmil » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 1:14 PM UTC

Post by Alphasite_ » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

robmil wrote: post #2

Unfortunately they're not supported in IE9 or below, which this article oddly fails to mention. So a more accurate title might be "make your UI more responsive for ~60% of your users with HTML5 web workers".

Post by dhruvbhatia » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 2:24 PM UTC

addandsubtract wrote: post #5

Step 1. Make your server more responsive.

Post by robmil » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

Alphasite_ wrote: post #4

robmil wrote: post #2

Unfortunately they're not supported in IE9 or below, which this article oddly fails to mention. So a more accurate title might be "make your UI more responsive for ~60% of your users with HTML5 web workers".

I think this is the case for nearly every technology, new, or old, and although they wouldn't be amiss to mention it, 60% is a lot better than a lot of other techniques which get mentioned here.

Post by mtrimpe » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

robmil wrote: post #9

addandsubtract wrote: post #5

Step 1. Make your server more responsive.

I realise this is snark about the article going down, but it's actually a good point too. Not much point in optimising the client side if all your dynamic requests take a second for the server to process.