On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > > > I don't really see how we can do away with this without interop > > issues. > > It sounds to me like simply saying: > > setTimout(handler, ms): > When called will schedule a event 'ms' milliseconds after the function > is called. When the event fires 'handler' is called. > > would make it a bug to not fire the event and produce any side effects > that it would have. For exactly the same reasons that canceling a > pending XHR request would be a bug.
The above would also mean that the timeout would fire even after the document has been closed, which is not what we want. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
