Re: Long running functions in javascript?

Axel Hecht wrote:
> 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

See Brendan's answer in the thread "Updating the DOM when doing JS", 
11/04/2002