Re: Ready indicator

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Nic Jansma <nic@nicj.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure if any of the browsers have built in special handling (for
> dev tools, diagnostics, etc) of those marks.  Vendors?
>


> We don't, we should. Opened a bug for Chrome CDT: crbug.com/431008

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I grepped through the Blink and Chromium source code a while ago looking
> for mentions of these names, and couldn't find any.
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Nic Jansma <nic@nicj.net> wrote:
>
>>  I'm not sure if any of the browsers have built in special handling (for
>> dev tools, diagnostics, etc) of those marks.  Vendors?
>>
>> A casual web search shows numerous hits on blogs, etc where their use is
>> being recommended.
>>
>> For future reference, would "namespacing" the marks, such as prefixing
>> them with "standard:" have been the recommended approach?  When designing
>> UserTiming, we wanted to *suggest* standardized names that developers
>> could use, if they were inclined.  The spec is careful to not mention any
>> expectation out of using these standard names.
>>
>> - Nichttp://nicj.net/
>> @NicJ
>>
>> On 10/13/2014 4:49 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Nic Jansma <nic@nicj.net> <nic@nicj.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Eli!
>>
>> In hindsight, I would agree with both of your recommendations.
>>
>> At this point though, with UserTiming being a W3C Recommendation, I think
>> that changing the names would bring confusion.  They're also only seen by
>> developers.
>>
>> If there are any additional "standard" marks you can think of that would be
>> useful, please let us know as well.
>>
>>  Hi Nic,
>>
>> It somewhat concerns me that we say "use whatever name mark you want,
>> it's just a string for you to give your own meaning to", but that we
>> then turn around and say "except for these names, these have special
>> behavior. Don't use these unless you mean exactly what we define them
>> to mean".
>>
>> This is something that we've stayed away from with for example Element
>> class names or id values. Various proposals have been made which gave
>> special meanings to class names or id values, but they have always
>> been shot down because things are just simpler if those are namespaces
>> owned entirely by authors.
>>
>> Has any browsers actually implemented any browser features using the
>> defined mark names?
>>
>> / Jonas
>>
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>
> --
> Ehsan
>

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