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setInterval advanced version (using requestAnimationFrame to improve performance)
// requestAnimationFrame Polyfill for IE9
(function() {
var lastTime = 0;
var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];
for(var x = 0; x < vendors.length && !window.requestAnimationFrame; ++x) {
window.requestAnimationFrame = window[vendors[x]+'RequestAnimationFrame'];
window.cancelAnimationFrame = window[vendors[x]+'CancelAnimationFrame']
|| window[vendors[x]+'CancelRequestAnimationFrame'];
}
if (!window.requestAnimationFrame)
window.requestAnimationFrame = function(callback, element) {
var currTime = Date.now();
var timeToCall = Math.max(0, 16 - (currTime - lastTime));
var id = window.setTimeout(function() { callback(currTime + timeToCall); },
timeToCall);
lastTime = currTime + timeToCall;
return id;
};
if (!window.cancelAnimationFrame)
window.cancelAnimationFrame = function(id) {
clearTimeout(id);
};
}());
// window.performance.now() Polyfill for IE9
(function() {
if ('performance' in window == false) {
window.performance = {};
}
if ('now' in window.performance == false) {
window.performance.now = function now(){
return Date.now();
}
}
}());
// leverage requestAnimationFrame to replace setInterval for performance
function setIntervalEx(fn, delay) {
var start = window.performance.now(),
handle = {}; // save current requestAnimationFrame id
function loop(current) {
var delta = current - start;
if (delta >= delay) {
fn.call();
// return; // will be changed to setTimeout if return at this line.
start = window.performance.now();
}
handle.id = requestAnimationFrame(loop);
}
handle.id = requestAnimationFrame(loop);
return handle;
}
function clearIntervalEx(handle) {
handle && cancelAnimationFrame(handle.id);
}
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