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Re:Slowloris: high-performance HTML5 UIs by erichocean on Monday September 10, 2012 @08:41AM (#4499426)
Web Workers are available in Chrome for Android (which requires Android 4.0 or greater).

They work fine, e.g. on the Nexus 7.

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Re:Slowloris: high-performance HTML5 UIs by davidarkemp2 on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:01AM (#4499514)
However, the problem with Android is version fragmentation - a lot of users have phones that they can't trivially upgrade to ICS, and therefore can't use Chrome for Mobile/Android. Asking someone to root their phone and install a custom ROM, and then install a different browser is a bit crazy if you ask me.
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Re:Slowloris: high-performance HTML5 UIs by CrazedGeek on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:41AM (#4499692)
True, but both Firefox for Android and Opera Mobile support web workers and work on Android 2.2+. Installing an ICS rom is wholly unnecessary.
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