Re: setTimeout() in HTML5

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> 2009/5/4 Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>:
> > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> >>
> >> I would recommend to the HTML5 editor to require some reasonable minimum
> >> because it seems to be de facto required for Web compatibility. I cannot
> >> state with certainty that nothing lower than 10ms is safe. Chrome
> >> shipped with a 1ms delay and that was found to create problems on a
> >> number of sites, including nytimes. They are planning to try 4ms next.
> >> We would consider using a lower limit in the official webkit.org version
> >> of WebKit, not not as low as 1ms.
> >
> > I've used 4ms for now but will increase it if that is found to be too low.
> >
> > I used 10ms for setInterval().
> 
> I would like to see a maximum too, as well as clearly defined error
> behavior for values outside the allowed range. This because I found
> very strange when Firefox turned an infinite timeout into 1ms.

The spec already defines this actually.

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