--- Dan Fabulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I didn't realize was that on most browsers the JavaScript interpreter 
> is single-threaded; background threads can add items to the queue of work 
> to be done, but as long as any function is sleeping, (busy-wait, applet 
> sleep, synchronous XmlHttpRequest, whatever,) no other *JavaScript* work 
> will happen in the background.

Do you have some tests that show that? My testing has shown that the only thing
that's "blocking" in javascript threads is dialog boxes, and even those only 
block
other dialogs. Since I'm currently implementing a threading model in a browser
emulator I'd be very interested in any additional testing I could do.

Brad C
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