Re: DOM3 Events call today/tonight?

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:59:06 +0100, Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>  
wrote:

> Garrett Smith wrote:
>> It might be worth discussing the load event;
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/events.html#event-load
>>
>> Seems that it is "specified" to fire on Document or Element (instead
>> of window).
>>
> I would also suggest a progress event on document or window.
> Ideally it would be triggered every 100ms during page-load.

I would suggest that the editor of the progress spec get back to dealing  
with the last issues raised by Ian, but he is writing this email :)

However the issue of timing is an interesting one. I am not sure how handy  
it is to expect a particular frequency, since it will vary pretty wildly  
depending on networks as well as other stuff. As a data point, I am told  
that while Australian broadband connections manage to deliver on average  
almost 2/3 of their advertised speed, which is a relatively good  
correspondence although advertised speeds for things people pay for are  
often are often pretty low, in terms of connections to actual offshore  
services they are getting something like 1/8. So you would get small  
progress over a long time.

When you emit an event it is pretty low cost. But when you deal with a  
javascript that listens for that event and then does something else, it is  
more expensive - and when that starts to eat the battery of your mobile  
phone, maybe 10 times a second is more than people want.

Anyway, I leave the issue of whether to request user agents to make a  
particular timing available to the specs that use progress events,  
although I have reservations about the wisdom of conditioning authors to  
expect things just because broadband in a few countries can deliver them  
easily.

cheers

Chaals

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