remy sharp's b:log

If you've written any kind of validation on user input, like onkeypress then you'll know that sometimes you want to throttle the amount of times your function runs. A good example of this is Ajax based username validation - you don't want to hit the server on every key press, because most users will be able to write their name in around 1/10th of a second, so you should throttle the Ajax request until the input is dormant for 100ms.

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