[webkit-dev] Proposed Timer API

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Thu Oct 2 17:16:25 PDT 2008


On Oct 1, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:

> Justin Haygood:
>> http://blog.justinhaygood.com/2008/09/30/proposed-high-resolution-timer-api/
>
> If possible, it would be nice if there could be some degree of
> compatibility between this proposed API and the one in SVG Tiny 1.2:
>
>  http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/ 
> svgudom.html#svg__SVGTimer
>
> Though I imagine you don’t want to fire events called "SVGTimer". :)

I considered that, but I don't like the fact that it makes the common  
zero-delay continuation callback case into three lines of code instead  
of one, for what I think is no practical benefit.

Regards,
Maciej



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