Re: Implementing the web timing spec

On Feb 11, 11:28 pm, Christian Biesinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> there's a specification for exposing detailed timing information of web
> page elements via the DOM:http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebTiming/
>
> Some people here would like to implement it in Firefox. The reason for
> exposing it via the DOM is to gather actual concrete end-user timings;
> other approaches don't allow that (also not all of this timing data is
> currently available to extensions).
>
> The idea is to change the spec a bit to limit the number of elements on
> which this data is exposed, probably to drop the Ticks interface, etc.
>
> Would people agree this is useful, and in particular, would the DOM
> peers be willing to accept patches to implement this spec?
>
> Chromium is implementing this spec as well
> (https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-October/010382.html).
> For a bit of discussion on the spec, see the thread at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07393.html
>
> -christian

This is real good news. I agree that this is useful. I am also willing
to contribute towards the implementation of this spec.

Thank you very much biesi for bringing this up.

Looking forward for more support.

-- Brahmana