14907 2011-11-22 20:19:46 +0000 It looks like you can pass the return value of setInterval to clearTimeout 2012-01-31 20:29:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#timers P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mathias mike Ms2ger public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 60355 0 contributor 2011-11-22 20:19:46 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/timers.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#timers Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#timers Comment: It looks like you can pass the return value of setInterval to clearTimeout Posted from: 91.181.139.95 by ms2ger@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111001 Firefox/10.0a1 60356 1 Ms2ger 2011-11-22 20:20:11 +0000 http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1261 60372 2 zcorpan 2011-11-23 10:11:35 +0000 and vice versa 60373 3 zcorpan 2011-11-23 10:17:17 +0000 This also means that the return value for setTimeout and setInterval need to use the same counter. 61139 4 ian 2011-12-07 22:49:03 +0000 Well that's just silly. 63434 5 ian 2012-01-31 20:18:24 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 63435 6 contributor 2012-01-31 20:20:47 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6949. Check-in comment: Turns out clearTimeout() and clearInterval() are synonyms! Who knew? Oh what a tangled Web we weave. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6948&to=6949 63442 7 Ms2ger 2012-01-31 20:29:54 +0000 Silly stuff.