[whatwg] What is the purpose of timeupdate?

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote:

> We've considered firing it for each frame, but there is one problem. If
> people expect that it fires once per frame they will probably write scripts
> which do frame-based animations by moving things n pixels per frame or
> similar. Some animations are just easier to do this way, so there's no
> reason to think that people won't do it. This will break horribly if a
> browser is ever forced to drop a frame, which is going to happen on slower
> machines. In balance this may or may not be a risk worth taking.
>

That's possible, but we haven't noticed authors doing that yet.

Rob
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