Re: Implementing the web timing spec

On 2/11/10 8:28 PM, Christian Biesinger 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.
So quite a few changes are needed, as I expected.


>
> Would people agree this is useful, and in particular, would the DOM
> peers be willing to accept patches to implement this spec?

Timing is useful sure, but *I* am not sure that the *draft* spec is
even close to something which should be implemented.

But sure, IMO, patches should be accepted if and when the specification
is stable and reasonable enough.


-Olli


>
> 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