- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:56:32 +0200
- To: "Aaron Boodman" <aa@google.com>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "public-webapps@w3.org Group WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:43:34 +0200, Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com> wrote: > To me, fractional milliseconds does not seem weird. On the webkit-dev > thread, Peter Speck pointed out [1] that the unit of time in web > development is milliseconds. Dates are in milliseconds, setTimeout > takes millisecond arguments, etc. So to me, it would be weird to have > a new timer API that suddenly uses seconds. And I tend to agree with > Peter that doing so would be a common source of bugs for web > developers. FWIW, <video>/<audio> currently uses seconds, though maybe that's a bug in the APIs for those elements... > [1] > https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2008-October/005273.html -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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