The Web Platform Podcast

This week on The Web Platform Podcast your hosts ask the question “Why aren’t Web Workers more widely adopted”? Your hosts talk about what problems can be solved by Web Workers providing some interesting use cases and talk about their own experiences in past projects. Resources https://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-localstorage-what-blocks-the-dom/  Around the Web in Two Minutes Chrome Canary gets JavaScript Modules https://jakearchibald.com/2017/es-modules-in-browsers/ TypeScript 2.3 Released https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/04/27/announcing-typescript-2-3/ Firefox 53 arrives with new themes, separate graphics process https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/19/firefox-53-arrives-with-new-themes-separate-graphics-process-on-windows-and-compact-tabs-on-android/ Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed until the end of May https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/node-js-8-0-0-has-been-delayed-and-will-ship-on-or-around-may-30th-cd38ba96980d Published “A Practical Guide to Va