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Standardize global `setTimeout`/etc.?

# Isiah Meadows (8 years ago)

Most runtimes (not necessarily engines) in my experience provide either a synchronous sleep or the above setTimeout/etc. globals. In addition, many popular testing frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jasmine) require them for important functionality. So here's my thought: it might be a good idea to standardize these methods in the language proper instead of just within the browser.

Isiah Meadows me at isiahmeadows.com

# Andrea Giammarchi (8 years ago)

These are standard already: www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/timers.html#timers

It's rather a matter of "what in the W3C global scope should be available on ECMAScript specifications too" ?

'cause timers are not the only thing that comes handy. Native URLSearchParams and URL are also very handy, so could be fetch VS current http get.

encodeURIComponent is there too ... why is that?

Etcetera

# T.J. Crowder (8 years ago)

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:

These are standard already: www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/timers.html#timers

That's only for browsers. As far as I know, there's no standard for the broader picture Isiah was talking about. For instance, NodeJS's setTimeout and setInterval do not conform to that specification (their handles aren't numbers, for one thing).

-- T.J.

# Andrea Giammarchi (8 years ago)

What I meant, is that I don't think it'd be wise to duplicate DOM standards on the ES side or, even worse, create specification incompatibilities.

Timers are just the top of the iceberg, IMO

# Isiah Meadows (8 years ago)

Okay. Never mind, then.