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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)


Solution

  • 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