#2 ✓resolved
Wes Biggs

setTimeout and setInterval string support

Reported by Wes Biggs | 2009-01-02 14:53:40 UTC

window.setTimeout and window.setInterval need to support strings as well as functions.

The following patch line can be put as the first line of both functions.

    if (typeof fn == 'string') {
            var fnstr = fn; 
            fn = function() { 
                eval(fnstr); 
            }; 
        }

However, we may want to consider if this should work for String objects (as opposed to primitives), or generally perform a toString on anything that's not a function.

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