On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Ennals, Robert <robert.enn...@intel.com> > wrote: >> >> Should we also consider the case where a web site wants to keep its >> interface up to date with some server state and is using up CPU time and >> network resource to do so? > > You could abuse my proposal to do this, by periodically (as frequently as > you run script now) calling requestAnimationFrame and seeing if you actually > get a paint event. Maybe that's not an ideal solution, though.
Yeah, I think having an API that lets you check if the page is visible, as well as an event that lets you know when the visibility changes, would be a good idea. That's better than adding *WhenVisible APIs, like setTimeoutWhenVisible, EventSourceWhenVisible, etc. / Jonas
