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Ringmark Launch

This morning, at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor announced Ringmark, the mobile web test suite that we’ve been working on with Facebook. At Bocoup, our mission is to further the evolution of the Open Web. That’s why we’ve gotten behind Ringmark with our JavaScript expertise. Ringmark comprehensively tests the […]

JavaScript Web Workers: Support & Testing The Browser

In case you’re not yet familiar, the JavaScript Web Workers API is a feature that facilitates the execution of scripts in an independent background process, away from any UI related logic. It should be assumed that the Worker’s life-cycle is the same as the application that called it, as it comes with start-up and instance […]

Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive, Part III

I’m a jQuery enthusiast. Maybe even an evangelist. So I decided to make workers easy for my fellow jQuery developers – and thus was born the jQuery.Hive. Inititally it began it’s life as PollenJS a jQuery-looking library of functions that were light, useful and thread-safe. This was before the WebKit implementation existed so everything was […]

Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive, Part II (Browser Implementations)

As I mentioned in Part I, the Web Worker API is available for use in Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+ and Chrome 4+, however the implementations are inconsistant. This has been completely overlooked by every single tutorial I’ve found. The issue revolves around the accepted argument to postMessage() (from both the main window and the worker). […]

Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive

This is long overdue. Also, it should serve as a context for my slides from jQuery Conference, San Francisco 2010 (use the up and down arrow keys to navigate). Whether or not you’ve read the WHATWG Web Worker spec and are looking for more information about Javascript multi threading OR you already have a rudimentary […]

Expanding Capabilities of Javascript Web Workers

Yesterday, I was introduced to Javascript Web Workers during a bad-ass FireBug console hack-session with Al MacDonald (http://hyper-metrix.com). I have to say… this is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a very long time… Workers are currently available in FireFox 3.5, Safari 4 and (according to John Resig) the Chromium Nightlies. I’d like to consider […]