Why does the following function wait until after the while loop is finished to update the #timer css? It happens in IE and Firefox - I'm (still) using jQ 1.1.2.
function wait(time){ $("#timer").css("display","block"); time = time * 1000; var sleeping = true; var now = new Date(); var startingMSeconds = now.getTime(); while(sleeping){ alarm = new Date(); alarmMSeconds = alarm.getTime(); if(alarmMSeconds - startingMSeconds > time){ sleeping = false; } } } -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/I-thought-I-understood-threads...-tf4096371s15494.html#a11647824 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com.