[whatwg] window.setInterval if visible.

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:23 AM, timeless <timeless at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Markus Ernst <derernst at gmx.ch> wrote:
> > From a performance point of view it might even be worth thinking about
> the
> > contrary: Allow UAs to stop the execution of scripts on non-visible
> windows
> > or elements by default, and provide a method to explicitly specify if the
> > execution of a script must not be stopped.
>
> fwiw, the N900 browser (microb) does this by default. it breaks google
> talk in gmail among other things. (You can turn this option off
> through the browser menus, you don't need to use about:config.)
>
> in many ways it's bad, especially since once broken, pages can't
> really be fixed, and users don't really understand that we broke it
> because they let us.
>
> being able to send a "Hibernate" and "Resume" event pair to web apps
> could be neat, but we don't have the resources to see if we could
> convince pages to respond to them.
>

Why don't you just treat this like bfcache and fire "pagehide" and
"pageshow" events?

Rob
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