Error Trying To Instantiate Web Worker Object

Trying out the web worker API for the first time and can't seem to get a response from the background worker. Markup:

Solution 1:

The path of the file containing the worker onmessage declaration is relative to the html file - not the calling script file.

I got it working by making the following edit:

var myWorker = new Worker('../Scripts/worker.js');

Solution 2:

1. The onmessage event pertains to the current window. So in script.js it should be

   self.onmessage = function (e)

instead of

myWorker.onmessage = function (e)

2. The postMessage method pertains to the target window. So in worker.js it should be

   onmessage = function (e) { e.source.postMessage('OK'); }

instead of

onmessage = function (e) {
   postMessage('OK'); }

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