Scheduling
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The Scheduling
object provides methods and properties to control scheduling tasks within the current document.
Warning:
The Scheduling
interface has been superseded by the Scheduler
interface, the features of which are better designed for addressing scheduling tasks. See Don't use isInputPending()
for more details.
Instance methods
isInputPending()
Experimental-
Returns a boolean that indicates whether there are pending input events in the event queue, meaning that the user is attempting to interact with the page.
Example
See the Scheduling.isInputPending()
page for a full example.
Specifications
Specification |
---|
Early detection of input events # the-scheduling-interface |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
Scheduler
interface- Prioritized Task Scheduling API
- Faster input events with Facebook's first browser API contribution on engineering.fb.com (2019)
- Better JS scheduling with isInputPending() on developer.chrome.com (2020)
- Optimizing long tasks on web.dev (2022)