[veesahni]

Is there much to gain in running ajax requests in web workers?

[masswerk]

You could load your data and have it processed while other assets are still loading. Later the same worker would liberate the UI-thread from model-jobs and keep the UI responsive.

See "Example 4" at http://www.masswerk.at/plexer for an example.

[cheeaun]

Sencha uses web workers for ajax calls to move it away from the UI thread, for its Fastbook web app http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-l...