[whatwg] Media elements statistics

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Chris Pearce <chris at pearce.org.nz> wrote:

> On 1/04/2011 12:22 p.m., Steve Lacey wrote:
>
>> Chris - in the mozilla stats, I agree on the need for a frame count of
>> frames that actually make it the the screen, but am interested in why we
>> need both presented and painted? Wouldn't just a simple 'presented' (i.e.
>> presented to the user) suffice?
>>
>>
> We distinguish between "painted" and "presented" so we have a measure of
> the latency in our rendering pipeline. It's more for our benefit as browser
> developers than for web developers.
>

Yeah, just to be clear, we don't necessarily think that everything in our
stats API should be standardized. We should wait and see what authors
actually use.

Rob
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