I'm curious what you find ugly about setTimeout, and how jQuery could
improve on it.
I don't see much if any difference between:
$(foobar).click( function() {
// called on click
});
and:
setTimeout( function() {
// called on timeout
}, 1000 );
They look like extremely similar styles of coding to me.
-Mike
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:04 AM, jez9999 <jez9...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It rather surprised me that one of the things I had to turn to a
> plugin for was a timer. It seems like the kind of thing that would
> frequently be useful to have, abstracted to a nice jQuery interface,
> rather than using directly the rather ugly setTimeout function in
> Javascript. Why not implement a timer interface in the jQuery core?
>
> You could also then take this one step further and use 1ms one-off
> timers to implement multithreaded programming through jQuery, too. I
> think this should work - a Javascript engine has to have the ability
> to do multithreading if several timers can callback over time whilst
> other JS code may be executing, right? So we could have a timer and
> multithreads abstracted out nicely in the jQuery core. Both would be
> nice.
>
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