These are standard already: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/timers.html#timers
It's rather a matter of "what in the W3C global scope should be available on ECMAScript specifications too" ? 'cause timers are not the only thing that comes handy. Native URLSearchParams and URL are also very handy, so could be fetch VS current http get. encodeURIComponent is there too ... why is that? Etcetera On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: > Most runtimes (not necessarily engines) in my experience provide > either a synchronous `sleep` or the above `setTimeout`/etc. globals. > In addition, many popular testing frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jasmine) > require them for important functionality. So here's my thought: it > might be a good idea to standardize these methods in the language > proper instead of just within the browser. > > ----- > > Isiah Meadows > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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