Re: Ready indicator

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