On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > Hi Maciej. > > Cameron McCormack: >>> If possible, it would be nice if there could be some degree of >>> compatibility between this proposed API and the one in SVG Tiny 1.2: >>> >>> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/svgudom.html#svg__SVGTimer > > Maciej Stachowiak: >> I considered that, but I don't like the fact that it makes the common >> zero-delay continuation callback case into three lines of code >> instead >> of one, for what I think is no practical benefit. > > Justin’s proposed API seems to need four lines for that case: > > var t = new Timer(); > t.repeatCount = 1; > t.addEventListener('timercomplete', function() { … }, false); > t.start(); > > compared with the three for SVG’s timer: > > var t = createTimer(0, -1); > t.addEventListener('SVGTimer', function() { … }, false); > t.start();
See my proposal on another thread, which makes this: startTimer(0, false, function() { ... }); > Or do you mean compared to a simple function-like API, such as > setTimeout(), where it can be done in one line? (Perhaps functions > like > setHighResolution{Interval,Timeout}() would be easiest then.) Yeah, my proposal is something like that, but just one function and without bothering to mention "HighResolution" in the name. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev