Re: Implementing the web timing spec

+zhiheng

Smaug wrote:
> 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.

Sure, the spec is being improved. If you have concrete feedback, I'm 
sure Zhiheng would love to hear it :) We also don't have to implement 
the spec completely from the start, we can implement the more reasonable 
  parts first.

-christian

>> 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
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