Web Timers

Overview

Web Timers is a Web Worker based utility to provide a more reliable/precise approach to the default timing utilities given by the browser. These include: setTimeout(), setInterval(), clearTimeout(), and clearInterval() methods.

Complications further arise when the tab is inactive, however, you still want some functionality to execute reliably at some interval in the background.

Web Timers addresses this by using HTML5's Web Workers to spawn new workers that manage the time more accurately including when the tab is inactive.

Methods

Web Timers exposes the following methods:

• wwSetTimout(callback, delay) -- Sets a timer which executes a function or specified piece of code once after the timer expires. This method returns a timeoutId which may be passed to wwClearTimeout()
• wwSetInterval(callback, delay) -- Sets a timer which repeatedly calls a function or executes a code snippet with a fixed time delay between each call
• wwClearTimeout(id) -- Cancels a timeout previously established by calling wwSetTimeout()
• wwClearInterval(id) -- Cancels an interval previously established by calling wwSetInterval()

Browser Compatability

Web Timers makes use of Web Workers and Blob. If both are not supported, functions fallback to their equivalent counterparts.

License

The MIT License (MIT)