ISSUE-37 - Public View
Timers in window interface
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Window
- Raised by:
- Ian Davis
- Opened on:
- 2006-03-06
- Description:
Maciej's initial draft [1] introduces a new TimerListener interface that is passed to the setTimeout and setInterval methods. This seems like a break to existing behaviour which is to pass a function or a string to be eval'ed. There has been some discussion on the lists about this design but no clear consensus. Clearly it's a goal to rationalise the window interface so that it fully supports DOM events but we also need to document existing behaviour. My proposal is to keep setInterval/setTimer in their two argument function forms, i.e. they expect a function as first argument and a delay in milliseconds for the second. The parameter list form has been shown to be non-interoperable [2]. We don't endorse support for the string eval form. We then define new events for the interval and timer - although I'm not sure about the mechanics at this stage. Should it be setIntervalListener? [1] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/Window/source/Window.xml [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2006Feb/0050.html
- Related emails:
- ISSUE-37: Timers in window interface (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-03-06)
- Minutes, face to face meeting (from chaals@opera.com on 2006-05-15)
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Related notes:
2006-05-03: See ISSUE-70.