How JavaScript Timers Work

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How JavaScript Timers Work
"...they behave unintuitively because of the single thread which they are in. ...timer delay is not guaranteed."
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Posted Feb 25, 2008
David S.
Responses to this thread:
todd: javascript always strikes me as a huge pile of fail. i don't think it has to be. it's not a bad language in principle. but the implementations are unstandardized crap. and the language spec sucks.
Posted Feb 25, 2008

james: Yeah, ECMAScript/JavaScript is good stuff, but the way it weaves itself amongst all the other browser operations is @$$. Honestly, HTML/DOM is a terrible framework to have managing the front of your application.
Posted Feb 25, 2008

Shimon: Apparently optimizing for programmer-friendliness is not the same as optimizing for universal deployment. Who knew.
Posted Feb 25, 2008

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