Based on popular demand (and threats that without a spec implementations would proceed regardless) I have started collecting use cases and requirements for a specification for background worker scripts ("threads") in JavaScript: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#requirements Any feedback would be greately appreciated, especially from authors involved in large Web applications who would make significant use of such a feature, and from implementors of browsers that may support this.
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