Javascript Web Workers: Safari 5 Now Supports Complex Messages

Following the announcement of Safari 5 [ 5.0 (7533.16) ] today, I did some due diligence and ran it through the json-object, array, boolean and string Worker message cases that I had produced for testing against Chrome 5. The results are in and thankfully consistent - so not much to report here accept that - yes - Safari 5’s Web Worker API has been updated to fully support complex messages as arguments to postMessage() natively.

Nothing new, but here are the cases if you want to try them yourself:

http://gist.github.com/414901

Edit In the time since this was originally published, Chrome, Safari & Opera now support complex JSON messages.

This entry was posted by Rick Waldron (@rwaldron) on June 07, 2010 in HTML5, PollenJS, Safari, Web Workers and WebKit.

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