Re: setTimeout() in HTML5

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.

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Giovanni

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