[webkit-dev] High Resolution Timer API proposal(s)

Timothy Hatcher timothy at hatcher.name
Thu Oct 2 17:53:57 PDT 2008


Why double delayInSeconds and not milliseconds to stay consistent?

On Oct 2, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Aaron Boodman <aa at google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  
> wrote:
> > I don't really like the overengineered version. I like the "fairly
> > minimalist" version best, but is there anything from the
> > overengineered version that should be added to it?
>
> I like the "fairly minimalist" version best as well.
>
> The stop() method does seem a little lonely on the Timer interface all
> by itself.
>
> If others think any other members from the "overengineered" version
> are important I would welcome them to keep stop() company.
>
> +1. My ideal would be the following:
>
> Timer startTimer(double delayInSeconds, bool repeating, Function  
> callback);
>
> interface Timer {
>     void stop();
>     void resume();
>     void setDelay(double delayInSeconds);
> }
>
> That would cover the majority of cases I've seen in real-world  
> javascript code. The argument for setDelay is wanting to be able to  
> tweak the delay on the fly (e.g. Google Page Creator has autosave  
> code that gets a response from the server  with a longer delay time  
> when the server is overloaded).
>
> Ojan
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