Software vendor Microsoft Corp., US, is to co-chair a new World Wide Web Consortium working group with Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US. The W3C Web Performance Working Group has been mandated to find methods for measuring application performance on the web.
The first deliverable for the working group is to recommend an API that measures the performance of browser navigations. The WebTimings specification is seen to provide a good starting point for these capabilities, so this specification will move into the Web Performance Working Group and become the foundation for recommendations.
Jason Weber, Microsoft's lead programme manager for IE Performance, has said in a blog post that the third Platform Preview of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser was the first browser to implement these portions of the WebTimings specification.
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