Re: Implementing the web timing spec

Mike Shaver wrote:
> Many pixels have been spent on how to time that very thing reliably,
> but maybe you're right: why do you think that applications don't need
> to test the total time for first-time access?  Is that what you're
> hearing from web developers who are watching the performance of their
> sites?

Nothing is before Big Bang. Big Bang of a web application is, when the 
first request receives the server. Nothing was before. No one must care 
about the before.

The User sending the request may be interested in that timing and may be 
therefore enable measuring this time. In that case this time from before 
the start may be available, but why should this time be of interest for 
the application? During the application run there are many times to 
record, why is this single before application start of interest? 
Interesting for the application are latencies caused by technical issues 
and user reaction times. So the timing information is needed to 
distinguish which server side waiting is caused by technical issues an 
what is caused by the user.