+1 for optional function
-Nicolas

On 8/29/07, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was thinking about this the other day as I was going through
> Christophe's book ... I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but stay
> with me.
>
> Instead of adding a "maxFrequency" option, (really, "maxDelay"),
> perhaps it would be more extensible to allow "decay" to accept a
> function as well as a number.  Maybe pass the frequency and last
> decay value as parameters, have it return the delay until the next
> request.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> TAG
>
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Chris Kampmeier wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > If anybody has a few cycles to spare, I could use some reviewers for a
> > patch I just submitted. It adds a "maximum frequency" option to
> > Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater's decay functionality, so you can do:
> >
> >     new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater('widgetList', '/widgets.json',
> > { frequency: 1, decay: 2, maxFrequency: 5 });
> >
> > When the response is not modified, the time between requests will only
> > decay to 5 seconds at the most (after increasing from 1 to 2, and then
> > to 4). I've needed something like this almost every time I've used
> > Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater to prevent decayed frequencies on the order of
> > minutes.
> >
> > http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8184
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris Kampmeier
> >
> >
> > >
>
>
> >
>

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