Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A JavaScript setTimeout() even canNOT interrupt a currently executing setTomeout() event! Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:14:41 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:19763 comp.lang.java.programmer:24097 On 5/15/2013 11:58 PM, markspace wrote: > On 5/15/2013 7:44 AM, Richard Maher wrote: >> If, like me, you hold this truth to be self-evident then please bring >> your pitch-fork to the castle door of: - > > No. You're not much fun then. So the torch is out of the question? > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856969#c44 >> >> (Java/Liveconnect is the facilitator) >> >> Is it a GTK, Geko, Windows issue? > > I followed a bit from the last post you made on this issue, and I'm > pretty sure the issue is not GTK, Geko, or Windows, but in the general > vicinity of your chair. Look, you're most probably correct but it's just that ALL the WebKit browsers behave and do what they should and even *FireFox* on OS/X is unbreakable with my example. (Regardless of setTimeout()s, Thread.Sleep()s, and the number of JS Tester() objects. I bet my right gonad that no one here can *SHOW* me otherwise! > > They're being very nice and explaining why the issue exists and cannot > be changed. Some of the nicest, high-calibre, selfless people I've met in IT! If they could just tell me why FireFox OS/X doesn't miss a beat then I'll go away a happy man. > You have to change your own code. It's the only way. > > > Looks that way. I can deal with that.