So that I don't have to guess whether a page is "done" rendering. Many developers defer rendering using setTimeout, I'd like to wait until setTimeouts are done and then just after check the result. This would be superior to guessing at a sleep interval in the calling code.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Simon Fraser <simon.fra...@apple.com> wrote: > Why do you need to know if there are no more pending setTimeouts? > > Simon > > On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Steve Conover wrote: > >> Hoping someone on -dev might have an idea about this... >> >> -Steve >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Steve Conover <scono...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:19 PM >> Subject: Re: setTimeout and Safari >> To: webkit-h...@lists.webkit.org >> >> >> Actually I am discovering what one might describe as a "normal" >> problem here...how to know when the setTimeout's are done firing. The >> ideal would that I could somehow drill into the dom implementation and >> ask whether any setTimeout events are waiting to fire (and stop >> polling if the queue length is zero). >> >> I'm sure that's way off in terms of how this is actually implemented. >> Does such a thing exist? Could someone please point me to the >> relevant sourcecode? >> >> Regards, >> Steve >> >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Steve Conover <scono...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Sigh. Please disregard. After an hour of troubleshooting, I sent >>> this email, and two minutes later realized the problem was bad js >>> (blush). >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Steve Conover <scono...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I hope this is the right place to be asking this question. >>>> >>>> I'm using the cocoa api, and am able to load a web page in a WebView. >>>> However I have some javascript in the page that uses setTimeout to >>>> cause a function to fire 100ms into the future - but the page loads >>>> and ignores the setTimeout's. >>>> >>>> How do I get my setTimeout's to fire? I suspect this has something to >>>> do with the Run Loop, but my experiments so far with various parts of >>>> the Run Loop api have been failures. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Steve >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
