title: Are Javascript Timers API's like XHR and Canvas?
body: <p>For a deeper understanding of Javascript, I would like to know if the Timers (created with setTimeout and setInterval) are API's just like all the others included with HTML5, the DOM etc?</p>
  
  <p>If so, what is Javascript purely? </p>
  
  <p>@edit</p>
  
  <p>this discussion started when I was thinking about Node, trying to compare what is Node (Javascript on server) with the good old Javascript on the browser</p>