A Recursive setTimeout Pattern - Eric HyndsMonday, October 18, 2010 Colin Snover wrote a good article about why he thinks setInterval is considered harmful: setInterval ignores errors. If an error occurs in part of your code, it'll be thrown over and over again. setInterval does not care about network latency. When continuously polling a remote server for new data, the response could take longer than the interval amount, resulting in a bun
