Threading for iframes in IE

Question

Of the following, which don't run on the same thread as the current page in IE8 ?

I want to know this for implementing Web Workers in IE that are in separate threads.

Edit : is there a way to have window

in another thread in IE before postMessage

before?

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Eli gray 18 oct. '09 at 2:17

2 answers

As Franzi mentioned, using an iframe will not give you a new theme. However, you can "simulate" multithreading with setTimeout and callbacks:

"Multithreading in JavaScript": http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/multi-threading-javascript
Fakeworker.js (Web workers implementation using this setTimeout trick): http://code.google.com/p/fakeworker-js/

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brianpeiris 18 oct. '09 at 6:34

Franci penov · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-18T02:41:36+0000

IE streams are not bound to the resource domain. The iframe DOM file is created and bound to the same thread as the main browser document.