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 <[email protected]> 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
