Javascript Web Workers: Opera 10.60 Beta Supports Complex Messages

Opera 10.60 Beta was announced this week and along with the list of new HTML5 features it’s supporting was Web Workers. Of course I was excited to run it through the renderer/worker test suite I set up for my previous posts about Safari 5 and Chrome 5.

The results were pleasing, the first Opera release support Web Workers does in fact allow complex messages as postMessage() arguments.

Here is the gist with the test code.

Additionally, I discovered support for Shared Workers