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Do Web Workers Work In FF v43?

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rayj00
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I have the following html page: 

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Web Worker Example</title>
  </head>
 <body>
  <p>The time is now: <span id="result" /></p>
  <script>
var worker  = new Worker('worker.js');
worker.onmessage = function (event) {
document.getElementById('result').innerText = event.data;
    };
  </script>
 </body>
</html>

And the worker.js is simply: 

setInterval(function() {
        postMessage(new Date());
}, 2000);

This works fine in Chrome but I get nothing after "The Time Is Now:" in FireFox?

Ideas?

Thanks,

Ray

I have the following html page: <pre><nowiki><!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Web Worker Example</title> </head> <body> <p>The time is now: <span id="result" /></p> <script> var worker = new Worker('worker.js'); worker.onmessage = function (event) { document.getElementById('result').innerText = event.data; }; </script> </body> </html></nowiki></pre> And the worker.js is simply: <pre><nowiki> setInterval(function() { postMessage(new Date()); }, 2000);</nowiki></pre> This works fine in Chrome but I get nothing after "The Time Is Now:" in FireFox? Ideas? Thanks, Ray

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rayj00
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I just noticed my initial post got all jacked up!

Here is the html:

<title>Web Worker example</title>

The time is now:

<script> var worker = new Worker('worker.js'); worker.onmessage = function (event) { document.getElementById('result').innerText = event.data; }; </script>

And worker.js:

setInterval(function() { 

   postMessage(new Date());

}, 2000);

Again, this works in Chrome but not FireFox.

rayj00
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Wow...hozed again? Why can't I copy and paste into this window?

rayj00 said

I just noticed my initial post got all jacked up! Here is the html: <title>Web Worker example</title>

The time is now:

<script> var worker = new Worker('worker.js'); worker.onmessage = function (event) { document.getElementById('result').innerText = event.data; }; </script> And worker.js: setInterval(function() { postMessage(new Date()); }, 2000); Again, this works in Chrome but not FireFox.
rayj00
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Forget it. This sucks!

cor-el
cor-el
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I've fixed your first question post.

Try to ask advice at the Stack Overflow forum site.

rayj00
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cor-el said

I've fixed your first question post.

Try to ask advice at the Stack Overflow forum site.

I did post to Stack Overflow. So far no responses. This should not be that hard of a question. I'm pretty sure this should work in FF. I just don't know if I need to set something in about:config or not?

Thanks for fixing it. What was the issue? You can't cut and paste?

Ray

cor-el
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Current Firefox versions do not support innerText, so you need to use innerHTML to make it work in Firefox. The code will work in Firefox 45 and later.

  • Bug 264412 - (innertext) Add support for element.innerText (45+) 
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