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. - Nic http://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> 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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