[whatwg] HTML5 (including next generation additions still in development) - Mozilla Firefox (Not Responding)

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 7/7/10 5:43 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote:
> I hear this every so often. Do we really need the spec to double as a
> browser stress test? I mean, there are actual test suites nowadays. I
> just want to read the spec.

I'll just note that part of the reason it's a "stress test", apart from 
the old Firefox issue, is that it tries to be clever and not hang the 
browser.... which actually causes the browser to do a lot more work.  On 
my machine here, if the spec's script were not trying for the clever 
thing, it would take about 1-2 seconds (with a completely hung browser 
during that time) to do what it currently takes anywhere from 8 to 25 
seconds to do, during which time the browser is largely unresponsive anyway.

-Boris