fx.interval still mentions requestAnimationFrame

[kitchin]

requestAnimationFrame is no longer in jQuery. But it's still mentioned here: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.fx.interval/ (just before the example).

[kitchin]

See also the doc bug that added the line I propose removing or modding: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9497

Looks like requestAnimationFrame was in added in 1.6 and removed in 1.6.3.

A flag "supports.raf" was proposed but it never happened and I can't find any bugs on putting requestAnimationFrame back into core. There is a plugin instead http://plugins.jquery.com/requestAnimationFrame/

The problem is called "creating wormholes", see http://blog.jquery.com/2011/09/01/jquery-1-6-3-released/

[fALKENdk]

I think its a refercance to this : it https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.requestAnimationFrame

[kitchin]

But jQuery does not use it. The text

"jQuery.fx.interval currently has no effect in browsers that support the requestAnimationFrame property, such as Google Chrome 11. This behavior is subject to change in a future release."

should be

"In version 1.6, jQuery implemented requestAnimationFrame in browsers that supported it. This meant fx.interval had no effect in Chrome 11, for example. In version 1.6.3, jQuery removed requestAnimationFrame, so fx.interval again became effective in all browsers. (A jQuery plugin is available to implement requestAnimationFrame in version 1.8: https://github.com/gnarf/jquery-requestAnimationFrame )."

[kswedberg]

Thanks @kitchin. The fix will appear on the live site the next time the repo is tagged.