Re: [web-audio-api] (JSWorkers): ScriptProcessorNode processing in workers (#113)

> [Original comment](https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415#90) by Olivier Thereaux on W3C Bugzilla. Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:10:31 GMT

I am still rather uncomfortable with this issue, not only because we have not yet reached  consensus, but because I haven't really seen the right points made on either side of the debate.

On the "must happen in Workers" side, I mostly see (in e.g Marcus' Comment #3) the idea that we should make sure not to let developers do anything bad. I am not fully confortable with that - thought our job was to enable and empower, and if need be to document best practices. There *were* a few mentions that limiting custom processing to workers would solve other issues (see recent thread on the delay caused by the custom nodes) - which are more interesting IMHO and should probably be developed.

On the other side of the debate, Chris mentioned a few times that developers were not comfortable with using workers - something that should be taken seriously if we are to follow our pyramid of constituencies - developers over implementors over spec designers; but IIRC we haven't really validated with a significant sample of developers that it would indeed be an issue. I know the W3C doesn't really do user testing, but that may be a good way to prove (or disprove) Chris' point.

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