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Re: [NavigationTiming] incorrect description for requestStart

From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:37:00 -0700
Message-ID: <BANLkTimmAevzuFCgx8w7ef2EYKi19se2Rg@mail.gmail.com>
To: public-web-perf <public-web-perf@w3.org>
Cc: Jason Duell <jduell@mozilla.com>
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Christian Biesinger
<cbiesinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed a bug in the description for requestStart (Thanks jduell):
>> This attribute must return the time immediately before the user agent starts requesting the current document. It is set prior to checking HTTP cache.
>
> From what I remember from the discussions and from the timeline below,
> the "HTTP cache" sentence should be removed here, because this
> attribute refers to the time immediately before the UA starts
> write()ing to the socket. Otherwise, this would be identical to
> fetchStart (which does have similar cache wording).

Also, can we clarify what "local ressources" are? Probably things like file:///?

-christian
Received on Friday, 20 May 2011 00:37:28 UTC

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