On: The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps...

[ysofunny]

that they can be used to compute stuff locally

I imagine ideally we want user choice of where the computation is happening. if on a mobile device I'd save battery in exchange for network latency

but in a desktop computer I'd rather do as most local computation as I can

[plorkyeran → ysofunny]

For the sort of thing that are fast enough that network latency is relevant, on a mobile device you save battery by doing them locally. The radio takes more power than the cpu.

[jonahx → ysofunny]

I'm not asking about web workers generally. I'm specifically asking about their use as a client side cache as described in the article.

[bathtub365 → ysofunny]

Radio is one of the biggest users of battery on mobile devices.