Re: Implementing the web timing spec

    Thanks for chiming in, folks. Just a heads-up that an updated
draft is now up: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebTiming/
     - Ticks()
    + a list of elements that should export the DOMTiming interface

    As expected, I will continue losing my hair on this draft so
please do send your feedback.

    (Sorry for the late response. I've been on leave for the past two
weeks.)

cheers,
Zhiheng


On Feb 12, 5:07 am, Christian Biesinger <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Smaug wrote:
> > On 2/11/10 8:28 PM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
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> >> there's a specification for exposing detailed timing information of web
> >> page elements via the DOM:
> >>http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebTiming/
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> >> 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).
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> >> 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.
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> >> Would people agree this is useful, and in particular, would the DOM
> >> peers be willing to accept patches to implement this spec?
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> > Timing is useful sure, but *I* am not sure that the *draft* spec is
> > even close to something which should be implemented.
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> > But sure, IMO, patches should be accepted if and when the specification
> > is stable and reasonable enough.
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> 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.
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> -christian
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> >> Chromium is implementing this spec as well
> >> (https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2009-October/010382.html).
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> >> a bit of discussion on the spec, see the thread at
> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07393.html
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> >> -christian