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Why did Safari drop support for SharedWorker?

Why did Safari drop support for SharedWorker?

And are there any working polyfills using, for example, localStorage and StorageEvent as a communication port? (Yes, the shim would have to detect and recreate the master Worker)

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Tim Avatar asked Feb 03 '15 23:02

Tim


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Directly from one of the WebKit Engineers:

The implementation of Shared Web Workers was imposing undesirable constraints on the engine. It never gained any adoption.

Source here

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John Tregoning Avatar answered Oct 01 '22 11:10

John Tregoning