Re: Implementing the web timing spec

On 2/11/2010 10:28 AM, 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).

That places a burden on all users for performance timing information 
useful to a few. Should we adopt this broadly and put more profiling and 
debugging into DOM? If not why this particular one?

jjb