Re: [Web MIDI API] send() timestamp

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:

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> On Friday, December 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jussi Kalliokoski wrote:
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> > Hi Marcos!
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> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Marcos Caceres <marcos@marcosc.com(mailto:
> marcos@marcosc.com)> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm a bit confused… why does the API require a timestamp relative to
> some time (i.e., performance.now())? For example:
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> > This is to maintain symmetry with incoming messages, which have relative
> timestamps, e.g.
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> > // proxy
> > input.onmessage = function (e) {
> > output.send(e.data, e.timestamp)
> > }
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> Right, but that will just result in no waiting? (ie., just means 0 as
> timestamps in the past don't mean anything).
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Not necessarily. Some platform MIDI APIs have an internal clock and allow
MIDI messages to be sent and processed ahead of time, so when you receive a
MIDI message, it might not be supposed to take effect immediately. The
timestamps being synchronized with DOMHRTF essentially let you
leverage/emulate this feature without exposing meaningless details about
the underlying API, such as its internal clock.

Cheers,
Jussi


> What am I not getting?
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> Marcos Caceres
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