hmmm ... disregard is not the right word. It simply bumps any timer less than 10ms to 10ms. They call it error-correcting.
-- Brandon Aaron On 8/26/07, Brandon Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WebKit nightlies and Safari 3 disregard any timers less than 10ms and > according to this article so does IE and Firefox. See the section titled > "(3) JS Timeouts and Intervals" here: http://webkit.org/blog/?p=96 > > -- > Brandon Aaron > > On 8/26/07, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Pops schrieb: > > > So who knows what the developer of this code was thinking when he/she > > > set this value to 1. Maybe you do need it for animation. Maybe he had > > > yahoo finance running at the time and it mistakely thought that 1ms is > > > the "Fastest Possible" when it fact it is not. Zero ms is the > > > fastest. The problem is that 0ms is so fast, it will create a massive > > > CPU hogging. So you don't want 0ms. > > Here is one resource about minimum timeout values: > > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/efficient-javascript/?page=2#timeouts > > (last paragraph). > > Not exactly accurate, but at least a better rule of thumb then just > > guessing in the wild. > > > > -- Jörn > > > >
