- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:51:43 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: "whatwg@lists.whatwg.org" <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote: > >> On 2/20/14 11:18 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> (If people used rAF for what it was *intended* for, we could probably >> have stopped firing it *entirely* when the window isn't visible. > > We do. At least Chrome and Firefox do. Safari too. > >> Instead, we had to compromise with the 1s refresh rate instead.) > > That's what Chrome and Firefox do for setTimeout/setInterval. We actually clamp timers even more for background tabs if the page has not done anything externally observable (e.g. Send or receive network data) in a while. Cheers, Maciej
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