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Web MIDI MIDIMessageEvent.receivedTime deprecation

Category
Device
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Removed (Chrome 56)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Deprecate receivedTime property from MIDIMessageEvent. This is because the attribute was introduced to represent a high-resolution timestamp for real-time MIDI processing, but DOM Event started using hi-resolution monotonic time instead of epoch time for Event.timeStamp that can cover our use-case too.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-midi-api/issues/145

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