Intro to Web Workers

Brian Cooksey goes from "I don't really know what Web Workers are" to "OK I totally get Web Workers." on one short article.

...they are scripts that run in their own background thread. Independence from the regular JavaScript event loop means that a worker can churn away at something for a long time and your UI will remain responsive.

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