JavaScript: How do I sleep?

**CiberTHuG** · Nov 15th, 2001, 04:46 PM

Anyone know what is the ECMA standard way of sleeping a JavaScript or doing other time events?

And which doco do you use? Deciphering what I find is a bear.

**filburt1** · Nov 15th, 2001, 04:48 PM

Perhaps window.setTimeout("functionname(arguments)", delay in ms)?

**CiberTHuG** · Nov 15th, 2001, 04:51 PM

Now, is setTimeout a proprietary extention, or ECMA standard?

**filburt1** · Nov 15th, 2001, 05:08 PM

I'm not sure, it was supported in JS 1.3...

**Wynd** · Nov 15th, 2001, 06:25 PM

Well, Netscape 4.6 supports it, so I wouldn't be too worried

**sail3005** · Nov 15th, 2001, 06:28 PM

yeah, but that dosn't mean it is standard

**filburt1** · Nov 15th, 2001, 07:20 PM

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Now, is setTimeout a proprietary extention, or ECMA standard?

BTW, if you mean does it work only in IE or Netscape, it works in both.

**CiberTHuG** · Nov 15th, 2001, 11:32 PM

Well, again, I don't care if it works in both, I don't care who does or doesn't support it. I will only use it if it is standard.

I don't understand why that concept is so hard to follow.

**JoshT** · Nov 16th, 2001, 02:22 PM

window.setTimeout() can't be a ECMA standard - it would have to a DOM or W3 standard, as ECMAScript doesn't define DOM objects. I'm not seeing any documentation, but it was JavaScript 1.0.

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