Using web workers in phonegap

Question

I'm trying to create a HTML5 Web Worker in phonegap, but phonegap doesn't allow me to load a local javascript file at runtime. I get the following error:

var web_worker=new Worker('socket-worker.js')
undefined
file://socket-worker.jsFailed to load resource: The requested URL was not found on this server.

Does anyone have a good suggestion on how I can work around this, and get the worker running?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Haven't tried this yet but I believe we can run it using blob url. See it here ( http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/#toc-inlineworkers-bloburis )

Update: I've tried this already and it worked. :)

Answer 2

As per my knowledge Web Workers never works on local directory

file://

it works on server side. For example instead of placing files at "file://" so the path should be

***> http://localhost/ or***
***> http://server_ip_address***

Hence Phonegap consists of HTML and Javascript which are at device directory hence web workers are not supported in Phonegap.