- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:27:38 -0000
- To: "Robert Sayre" <sayrer@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG" <public-webapi@w3.org>
"Robert Sayre" <sayrer@gmail.com> > On 1/27/07, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com> wrote: >> >> So why is the value 10ms chosen? > > 10ms is already used for other things. > > <http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/dom/src/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp#206> > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123273> up to 54ms is used by other browser vendors in similar situations, so I'm still not sure why 10ms is an appropriate value, nor that picking an appropriate value for preventing DoS attacks from scripting should be made in every spec, browser vendors have to do what's appropriate for their own platforms and code. The arbritrariness of the value is why I do not feel it should be in the spec, but left to vendors. Cheers, Jim.
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