On Friday 2013-04-05 12:19 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:20 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > > W3C is proposing a revised charter for the Web Performance Working > > Group. For more details, see: > > http://www.w3.org/2013/01/webperf.html > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2013Mar/0000.html > > > > Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments or objections through > > Thursday, April 11. Please reply to this thread if you think there's > > something we should say. > > Some of this stuff seems really obscure. E.g. setImmediate is > basically an alias for setTimeout except it's less well defined, even > while having a whole document for it... Not really sure there's > anything meaningful we can say about that though, other than "don't do > it". > > I guess the other comment I have is that a lot of this seems to be > bolting stuff on rather than addressing the relevant concerns at the > core. E.g. "Resource Priorities" has been discussed in other contexts > and it had been decided to postpone it for now. Is it now going in via > some other group unless we pay attention? Performance is after all a > relevant concern just like accessibility, security, etc. is. I suppose > it makes sense to have a group ensure performance is addressed, but > bolting on special-purpose performance features seems like the wrong > strategy.
So do you think our charter comments should push for merging the group into Web Apps? Or some of the deliverables (e.g., leaving the navigation timing and performance timing work?). (The group is currently standardizing requestAnimationFrame, and heycam is involved in that; see http://www.w3.org/TR/animation-timing/ .) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
