[whatwg] Proposal: requestBackgroundProcessing()

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 2/20/14 11:18 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> (If people used rAF for what it was *intended* for, we could probably
> have stopped firing it *entirely* when the window isn't visible.

We do.  At least Chrome and Firefox do.

> Instead, we had to compromise with the 1s refresh rate instead.)

That's what Chrome and Firefox do for setTimeout/setInterval.

-Boris