Re: Long running functions in javascript?

Peter Wilson wrote:
> 
> Adam,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I am already using an async load of the document using document load.
> The trouble starts once I try to process the document before displaying
> it. (Axel recently posted an XSL script which is doing a similar thing
> that I am doing in JS).
Jonas did, I just rant.

> 
> The document load takes about 3 seconds the document processing takes
> just over a minute. Unfortunately I can't tack my processing onto the
> same thread as the document load. So that the callback only occurs when
> the deed is done.
> 
> The alternative is to use XPCOM magic to create a thread and proxies to
> communicate progress back to the UI thread.

Interesting topic, let's ask on dom, too.

Is it safe to create DOM content on a non-UI thread?

I'm afraid not.

Axel