I wonder who is the first person that has proposed modern Web Workers API. I find web workers, well, rather an ugly construction, I just can get the idea of calling workers from a separate file. I can see no any real danger in spawning a thread from an anonymous function.
But I'm asking this question without any intention to start flaming. The only reason I want to know the name (or names) of architects of web workers API is to try to search for certain messages in mailing lists to find out the real motives.