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Javascript Periodical Executer
posted on 03 August 2007 (03:46 PM)
When writing Javascript, you sometimes want to execute a certain function repeatedly (for instance, when creating a bit of animation, or when pinging for new messages in an AJAX chat application).
This involves calls to setTimeout or setInterval and usually repeatedly checking some conditions.
For simple, periodically executed calls to your custom functions, I have now written an easy extension to the Function prototype.