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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition
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Learn ECMAScript - Second Edition

by MEHUL MOHAN, Narayan Prusty
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Checking if worker support is available

Although web workers have been around for quite a long time and support is very strong, you still might want to check if web worker support is available in a client's browser (for example, Opera Mini doesn't support it). If it isn't, then just load the web worker file in the main script as well, and let your user feel the heat.

Web workers are available as a window object, so that is pretty much all you have to check in order to get started:

if(typeof window.Worker !== "function") {    // worker not available} else {    // good to go}
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