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A simple example of spawning an inline worker using Blob API.
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inline-worker-blob.html
<html>
<body>
<script id="worker" type="text/worker">
onmessage = function(e) { postMessage('worker: ' + e.data); }
</script>
<script type="text/ecmascript">
var blob = new Blob([
document.querySelector('#worker').textContent
]);
var blobURL = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
var worker = new Worker(blobURL);
worker.onmessage = function(e) {
console.log(e.data);
};
worker.postMessage('ui-thread');
</script>
</body>
</html>
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