Re: solving the CPU usage issue for non-visible pages

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Ennals, Robert <robert.ennals@intel.com>wrote:

> Should we also consider the case where a web site wants to keep its
> interface up to date with some server state and is using up CPU time and
> network resource to do so?
>

You could abuse my proposal to do this, by periodically (as frequently as
you run script now) calling requestAnimationFrame and seeing if you actually
get a paint event. Maybe that's not an ideal solution, though.

Rob
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