[whatwg] Media elements statistics

[Chris Pearce]

>>>> Note that the Mozilla implementation I proposed has had a counter
>>>> proposal by another mozilla developer and is being developed further.
>>>> See:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580531
>>> Thanks. Taking a further look at that.
>>>
>> Reviving thread...
>>
>> I have an initial patch in webkit (http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/77394)
>> and the chromium work is underway - I wonder what might be a good approach
>> to drive the apis closer together towards a real spec that everyone is happy
>> with?
>>
>> There seems to be a lot of general agreement here (at least in principal
>> :-) that this is needed. We'll be doing a bunch of experimentation once this
>> has landed in chromium.
>>

I've landed support for some Mozilla-specific video decoding/painting 
statistics in Firefox trunk (tracking in Mozilla bug 580531 mentioned 
above), it should ship in Firefox 5 in a few months. For a few details, see:
http://blog.pearce.org.nz/2011/03/html5-video-painting-performance.html

Regards,
Chris Pearce.