Re: Specifying window.performance.now()

On 2/29/12 12:53 PM, Jatinder Mann wrote:
>> In any case, I somewhat doubt requestAnimationFrame could change here.
>> Too much web content is depending on those times being comparable to JS Date simply because it had no other choice.  :(
>>
>> -Boris
>
> One of the motivations for performance.now() was to get requestAnimationFrame to use it, per this discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2011Aug/0039.html. Seeing that developers were aware that they were using prefixed code that could still change behavior and requestAnimationFrame spec has only now just gone into Last Call, I don't think it's too late to make such changes.

We can try; I predict significant web compat issues...

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:02:40 UTC