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Warn readers that IdleDeadline.timeRemaining() can adjust asynchronously #104

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@jyasskin

https://w3c.github.io/requestidlecallback/#dom-idledeadline-timeremaining says it calls the 'get deadline time' algorithm, but you have to look for a while to discover that that's set in https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#event-loop-processing-model to an algorithm whose response can change in the middle of a task. (I did greatly appreciate that that's linked from https://w3c.github.io/requestidlecallback/#dfn-start-an-idle-period so I didn't have to look through https://dontcallmedom.github.io/webdex/.)

Could you add a note so people reading this notice the (justified) behavior that violates https://w3ctag.github.io/design-principles/#js-rtc?

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