Re: [whatwg] Canvas in workers from Justin Novosad on 2013-10-15 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from October 2013)

From: Justin Novosad <junov@google.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:19:26 -0400
To: David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com>
Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
Message-ID: <CABpaAqSRsstMGofpSE2rjV75pSwzunG6H53tvp6Ej=PNmSdonw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 7:55 PM, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Not directly related, but I imagine requestAnimationFrame doesn't work in
> a worker. How can a script know when to stop drawing on a given canvas?
>
> rAF doesn't work in a worker, but that is easy to work around. You can
have a rAF handler on the main thread that propagates the signal to your
workers by posting a "rAF" message to them.

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