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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> <[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 > > > > -- Ehsan
