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

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Thu Oct 2 20:44:55 PDT 2008


On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote:

> Maciej Stachowiak:
>> I think I will mention some of these possible variations when
>> proposing the spec. At Hixie's suggestion I will propose it as a
>> standalone spec on <public-webapps at w3.org>, I recommend that those  
>> who
>> wish to follow the discussion subscribe to that list.
>
> Hixie mentioned at one point that he’d like to see WindowTimers in a
> separate spec, I think.  Now that there is the event loop stuff in
> HTML 5 I don’t know whether that’s still his opinion, but if it is,  
> will
> you include setInterval()/setTimeout() in this Web Apps spec?  That
> would be useful for SVG in the future.

I think it would be a good idea to include the older existing timer  
APIs, yes.

Regards,
Maciej



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