Re: [whatwg/dom] Update Event.timeStamp type to DOMHighResTimeStamp. (#420)

majido commented on this pull request.



> @@ -761,15 +764,14 @@ initialized to false.
 the user agent to dispatch an <a>event</a> whose {{Event/isTrusted}} attribute is initialized to
 false.
 
-The <dfn attribute for=Event><code>timeStamp</code></dfn> attribute
-must return the value it was initialized to. When an
-<a>event</a> is created the attribute must be
-initialized to the number of milliseconds that have passed since
-00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, ignoring leap seconds.
-<!-- leap seconds are ignored by JavaScript too -->
+The <dfn attribute for=Event><code>timeStamp</code></dfn> attribute must return the value it was
+initialized to. If available, the attribute should be initialized with the high resolution time of
+the occurrence that the event is signaling, for example the moment when a particular user
+interaction occurred. Otherwise it should be initialized with the creation time of the
+<var>event</var>.

This is the same terminology that was used before. The way I read it was the time where the <var>event</var> instance was constructed which is what Chrome implementation was also using. 

Put it another way this is IMHO step 1 in section 2.4.  Perhaps it should link to that.

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