Keeping expensive computation out of main thread with Service Workers

[jwold]

Feature description

As a developer, I want to keep expensive computation out of main thread by using Workers to play back offline video, to download content, to sync posters, ...

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Acceptance criteria

This is incredibly valuable to have to not pollute main JS thread with all this complexity, it should be a matter of a worker doing that job in parallel, but it would still work in the application if it didn't happen initially.

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[jwold]

Derek > We want to describe the problem more clearly. This is about separating the thread and having two separate threads and having worker in background to do the work. Needs more definition.