Why was HTML5 Web Workers support removed from the Android browser in versions 2.2 and up?

Question

I\'m trying to learn something about JavaScript threading. And from a tutorial I learned about HTML5 API web worker. This API enables JavaScript multi-threading. So I start to f

Answer 1

Regarding when the API will be available, Web Workers (but not shared workers) are now available in Chrome Mobile, available only for ICS (Android 4.0) and higher devices.

Note that the built-in browser on Android 4 does not support workers; you must install Chrome.