18034 2012-07-18 16:01:51 +0000 It would appear that setTimeout()'s algorithm doesn't ever actually check whether the task is still in the list of active timeouts, and doesn't remove the timeout from the list of active timeouts. Similarly with setInterval(). 2013-04-26 12:55:51 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#timers CR P3 normal --- 1 contributor silviapfeiffer1 ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 70536 0 contributor 2012-07-18 16:01:51 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 15120 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2011-12-08 22:46:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2011-12-08 22:46:10 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#timers Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#timers Comment: It would appear that setTimeout()'s algorithm doesn't ever actually check whether the task is still in the list of active timeouts, and doesn't remove the timeout from the list of active timeouts. Similarly with setInterval(). Posted from: 2620:0:1000:147d:fa1e:dfff:fedd:ce8d by ian@hixie.ch User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.942.0 Safari/535.8 ================================================================================ #1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-01-31 22:46:11 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The check is in the task algorithm, it turns out. And setInterval() shouldn't clear it. But I added a note in setTimeout()'s algorithm about this. ================================================================================ #2 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-01-31 22:47:11 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Checked in as WHATWG revision r6955. Check-in comment: Add a note about setTimeout() clearing the timer after running the task. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6954&to=6955 ================================================================================ 72213 1 Ms2ger 2012-08-15 17:13:16 +0000 Filter on [Idon'tcareaboutHTMLWGbugspam]. 86858 2 silviapfeiffer1 2013-04-26 12:55:51 +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: https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/71b60837560672cd1e5af12f9229af46c5a89273 Rationale: was already fixed before the split with WHATWG, so has the same fix