Returns a boolean indicating whether the browser intends to update the visual display – including updating animations and running requestAnimationFrame() callbacks – at the next opportunity (i.e., after the currently-running javascript task yields back to the browser).

Motivation

Provides developers with better information for making decisions in code about when to defer work and yield back to the browser's event loop

Documentation

Status in Chromium

Blink>Scheduling


In development (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

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Owner

Last updated on 2021-07-25