Comments on: Rate Limiting with JavaScript

By: CSS Technique: Morning Sunset « Stoat – Where?

CSS Technique: Morning Sunset « Stoat – Where? — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:40:27 +0000

[...] on to prevent the event firing continuously and slowing down the page. That came from a helpful Dojo Cookie by Peter Higgins over at Dojo Campus. I haven’t played fully with the rate limiting yet, but [...]

By: dante

dante — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:58:52 +0000

Simon Willison created the opposite of this technique briefly:

http://gist.github.com/292562

While this will trap events and fire the LAST event triggered after a timeout, Simon’s will fire the FIRST event and not again until after a timeout threshold. Both have great applications.

By: Les

Les — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:46:02 +0000

I wonder if the dojo.connectPublisher function could be modified to accept additional ‘rate’ argument, e.g.

dojo.connectPublisher(”/window/scrolled”, window, “onscroll”, 75);

…or a new function could be created, e.g.:

dojo.connectLimitedPublisher(”/window/scrolled”, window, “onscroll”, 75);