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I know web workers work as a separate thread than the UI thread but i dont understand why they are not allowed to modify the DOM. I mean that you can allow inter thread communication and keep the DOM data in a shared space and have the web workers thread modify the DOM. Why is this not allowed in browsers?
Because the DOM is not threadsafe, and JavaScript does not expose a thread API.
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