Re: [User Timing] Clarification of negative duration values

IE also "allows" for this scenario and shows a negative duration in the 
getEntries query.

- Nic
http://nicj.net/
@NicJ

On 1/20/2015 4:49 PM, Eli Perelman wrote:
> In working on the implementation of the User Timing spec in Gecko, it 
> was brought up about the potential of durations to return negative 
> values. Specifically it was unclear from the spec whether things like 
> this should be allowed:
>
> ```js
> performance.mark('A');
> performance.mark('B');
>
> performance.measure('delta', 'B', 'A');
>
> assert( performance.getEntriesByName('delta')[0].duration < 0 ); // true
> ```
>
> Chrome allows this interaction, enabling negative duration values for 
> measures. Is this intended, and if so, should we clarify the spec that 
> negative durations are allowed for performance measurements specifically?
>
> Eli Perelman
> Mozilla