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A web worker, as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), is a JavaScript script executed from an HTML page that runs in the background, independently of scripts that may also have been executed from the same HTML page. Web workers are often able to utilize multi-core CPUs more effectively. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Web workerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Effectiveness of a bite-sized web-based intervention to improve healthcare worker wellbeing: A randomized clinical trial of WISERInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: White collar slacker's handbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Web 2.0 and the empowerment of the knowledge workerCited 104 times
- Go sideways: Web MessagingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: HTML5A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Web 2.0 and the empowerment of the knowledge worker
Keeping Up: Web Design Skill and The Reinvented Worker
Feasibility of a worker-directed web-based intervention for employees with depressive symptoms
Quantified factory worker: field study of a web application supporting work well-being and productivity
Web-based Information Systems and Knowledge Management's Impact on Worker Performance
Dynamic web worker pool management for highly parallel javascript web applications
Web Service Based Mobile Worker Supporting System for Construction Industry Applications
Rendering optimization method and implementation of power grid WebGIS based on Web Worker
🆕 Influential since 2022
Effectiveness of a bite-sized web-based intervention to improve healthcare worker wellbeing: A randomized clinical trial of WISER
A Web-Based Total Worker Health Intervention for Those Fighting Wildland Fires: Mixed Methods Development and Effectiveness Trial
WEB-BASED SYSTEM TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE "SOCIAL WORKER"
LEAVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING WEB SERVICE WORKER AND CHUNKING OF IMAGE SUBMISSION
Task Partitioning and Scheduling for Fractal Graphics Rendering Based on Web Worker
📚 Books worth reading
White collar slacker's handbookMarc Saltzman · 2004
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- HTML5 HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language 5) is a markup language used for structuring and presenting hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. It was the fifth…
- DOM event DOM (Document Object Model) Events are a signal that something has occurred, or is occurring, and can be triggered by user interactions or by the browser…
- Document Object Model The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent API that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node…
- Canvas element The HTML canvas element allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images. Introduced in HTML5, it is a low level, procedural model…
- Server-sent events Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a server push technology enabling a client to receive automatic updates from a server via an HTTP connection, and describes…
- XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText…
- WHATWG The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) was founded by representatives from Apple Inc., the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software…