On Apr 4, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Web APIs Issue Tracker wrote:
A.1) Define in an ECMAScript-only way, and assume other languages all
have their own built-in timer facility.
Do this. If the other language ACTUALLY have a need for a timer
feature,
then we'll hear about it when the authors of those language come and
request a feature, and then we'll be able to tell that they really
need it
when they actually propose an interface and so forth.
I spoke to Cameron McCormack about this, and it turns out that the
native Java timer facility is definitely *not* suitable for use with
in-page scripting. Java's Timer fires from a background thread, and
so any timers set that way
So if we want to support Java, we are pretty much forced to add
something, either by redefining the existing timer functionality to
also work for Java, or by adding some new methods/interfaces.
Regards,
Maciej
