On 03/10/2008, at 19:09, Mike Belshe wrote:
> I'm not opposed to any of this; and the new API is definitely
> nicer. I'll bring up a devil's advocate point. One thing I hate is
> the Microsoft-style smorgasboard of APIs. When you want to start a
> timer, you have 6 to choose from, and I hope we can avoid similar
> problems in the DOM. If keeping the number of APIs is a worthy
> goal, we could just augment the existing API in a backward
> comaptible way:
>
> setTimeout(callback, milliseconds, protect_against_cpu_looping =
> true)
>
> Example to set a 1us timer:
>
> setTimeout("foo()", 0.001, false)
And future extensions would add even more parameters.
The Google Map API uses an object for such extra parameters, e.g.
setTimeout("foo()", 0.001, { throttle:false, runInBackground:true });
This would allow for future extensions without adding new methods/
classes; without having to add yet another API method.
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- Peter Speck
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